Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:30:33 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: Dan Armstrong <dan@beanfield.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urgent help with Reverse Lookups and FTPD Message-ID: <01061909303301.64018@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <3B2F74D7.C057B32F@beanfield.com> References: <3B2F74D7.C057B32F@beanfield.com>
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On Tuesday 19 June 2001 07:50, Dan Armstrong wrote: > We are a small ISP, and just turned up a new webserver running Free4.3 > > Most of our customers live on private (192.168) addresses and I am > getting slaughtered with phone calls that they cannot ftp into their > sites, and it is because their ftp programs don't necessarily wait for > Free's ftpd to timeout doing the reverse lookup, for an address that of > course does not have any reverse information for it. If I add their > IP to the /etc/hosts BOOM they get in instantly. These thousands of > addresses are all dynamically assigned, so the hosts file fix is not > possible on this scale. Is there a way I can get it to stop? HELP! > > Dan. You might want to look into Bind-9. This new version has the ability to do dynamic updates of your dns records from DHCP. You can find doccumentation on this in the bind-9 docs, or at ISC's website. http://www.isc.org. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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