From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 1 21:20:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11604 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:20:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11576 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:20:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA07797; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:49:57 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA09601; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:49:57 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980302154957.56826@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:49:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: knowtree@aloha.com, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How to get around failing reverse DNS lookups? References: <34FA4016.1536@aloha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34FA4016.1536@aloha.com>; from Gary Dunn on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 07:13:59PM -1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 March 1998 at 19:13:59 -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: > I run a caching-only DNS on Windows NT server at work to speed up > frequently used lookups, because our "real" DNS servers are distant and > slow (long story omitted). This particular server is not registered by > its actual name, although the IP address does belong to me (another long > story). Sounds like you should tell selected parts of the story. If you own the domain, you should be able to arrange reverse mapping. > Certain operations such as FTP connections to my FreeBSD box are slow > because of this -- the inability to perform a reverse lookup (IP to host > name). I have placed an entery in the hosts file, but it does not help. > > Short of fully registering my server, and without violating Internet > policy, is there a way to improve on this? Well, I suppose you're violating Internet policy already if you don't perform reverse mapping. > My only guess is to manually load an entery for the missing server > in the DNS table, but I don't think that is possible when running > WinNT DNS in cache-only mode. I can't speak for Microsoft. It is possible with FreeBSD, though not exactly kosher. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message