Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 11:32:39 +0100 From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reverse DNS.. Additional info.. Message-ID: <3C89E4C7.672B9E05@cs.umu.se> References: <3C8952A6.CC90A07C@cs.umu.se> <20020309202103.A2449@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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Jonathan Chen wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:09:10AM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote:
> > Hi again!
> >
> > I now discovered that I can connect to Apache from my Windows-
> > computer, on my internal network, without problem. Apache is
> > running as standalone, but telnetd is started from inetd. Is
> > the problem related to inetd?
>
> No. It's a reverse DNS lookup. Telnetd does one, but Apache doesn't.
> Either run a internal DNS with the IP addresses reverse-ptr'd or add
> the IP addresses to the /etc/hosts file of the machine in questions.
Putting the Windows computer IP and name in the /etc/hosts did solve
my problem! I didn't know there were done any DNS lookups when con-
necting by IP-number, as it should find the address on the network
right away. I tried out a lot of things, but not that particular one,
so thanks a lot, Jonathan!
Best regards,
Paul
PS: nz? Did fly half way around the globe for a vacation there some
time ago. A very nice country! :-)
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