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RE: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?
From: "Rowland, Alan D" <alan_r1 () corp earthlink net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:02:40 -0700
As an ATTBI customer at home (only [reasonably priced] high speed available in the area), the recent network/service changes being rolled out have a high negative pressure coefficient. Haven't tried FTP lately, will have to see if it still works on 'my' network tonight! I do know their USENET feed has gotten 'interesting' in the last week. Lots of 'there is no such group' with lots of new, mainly full of 'local' spam groups and significant numbers of 'no new articles' for days in normally high traffic hierarchies. Almost seems like their services are now being admin'd in China or something. Just my 2ยข. The delete key is your friend. -Al -----Original Message----- From: Lou Katz [mailto:lou () metron com] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:31 AM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? A client of mine just discovered that he could no longer do ftp transfers to my machine. His IP address had changed to one in 12.240.20 and there is no reverse DNS for that block. His previous assignment was in a totally different block which did have reverse DNS. Calls to ATTBI got the answer that they are not obligated to provide reverse DNS and have no plans to do so. My servers refuse connections when there is no reverse lookup. Is this common? -- I suppose I could set up a bogus reverse for him, but, feh... -=[L]=-
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- RE: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Jim Popovitch (Jun 19)
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- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Robert A. Hayden (Jun 18)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Stephen Griffin (Jun 19)