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Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden () geek net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:10:24 -0500 (CDT)
Most providers provide some kind for forward/reverse mapping, including ATTBI. Often, however, they do provide customized reverse mapping (ie, myhost.mydomain.com). That may be where the disconnect. I believe that ATTBI has a script that auto-generates forward/reverse mappings on a regular basis. You client may be just in a waiting period before the problem corrects itselft. On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Lou Katz wrote:
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?
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- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?, (continued)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Daniel Senie (Jun 19)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Frank P. Tower (Jun 19)
- RE: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Jim Popovitch (Jun 19)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Stephen Griffin (Jun 19)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Stephen Sprunk (Jun 18)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Jared Mauch (Jun 18)
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- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Jared Mauch (Jun 18)
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- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Jared Mauch (Jun 19)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Greg A. Woods (Jun 18)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Greg A. Woods (Jun 18)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Robert A. Hayden (Jun 18)
- Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS? Stephen Griffin (Jun 19)