From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 19 14:26:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from btconnex.net (mailtest.btconnex.net [209.47.192.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C81E37B407 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:26:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@beanfield.com) Received: (qmail 23447 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2001 21:23:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO beanfield.com) (192.168.66.18) by mailtest.btconnex.net with SMTP; 19 Jun 2001 21:23:24 -0000 Message-ID: <3B2FC3BB.69DA34B8@beanfield.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:27:23 -0400 From: Dan Armstrong X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent help with Reverse Lookups and FTPD References: <3B2F74D7.C057B32F@beanfield.com> <20010619215922.C1074@gaia.home.rdls.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 yo SO 'da MAN! That works PERFECTLY!! Sorry, I am dancing around the room right now. I have just had a day from you know where with users calling me from all corners complaining about FTP not working. I just made one new zone 168.192.in-addr.arpa, put no hosts in it and, as you said the reverse fails immediately. I owe you a drink! (If you are ever in Toronto) :-) Dan. Richard Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:50:47AM -0400, 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! > > Just a random thought, if you made your name server authoritative for > the zone "168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA", it would fail the reverse lookup > immediately. > > Rich. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message