From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 19 10:30:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7157837B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47930155; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:30:33 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Dan Armstrong , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urgent help with Reverse Lookups and FTPD Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:30:33 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <3B2F74D7.C057B32F@beanfield.com> In-Reply-To: <3B2F74D7.C057B32F@beanfield.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061909303301.64018@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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