Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:05:30 -0800 From: Victor Bondarenko <vpb@indite.org> To: James Earl <mtntrip@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space Message-ID: <20030327110530.A10853@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <20030327185204.GA645@comp4.ici.net>; from mtntrip@telus.net on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:52:04AM -0700 References: <20030327183154.GA622@comp4.ici.net> <20030327103827.A8705@mail.telestream.com> <20030327185204.GA645@comp4.ici.net>
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:52:04AM -0700, James Earl wrote: [...] > I'm assuming if I can use nslookup [ip-address] to get my hostname, > that reverse DNS on the ISP is setup properly. Is this an okay > assumption? Most likely, yes. Just to be safe, I would do something like nslookup [ip-address] [isps-nameserver] to make sure that you're getting the query from your ISPs name server and not from the one on your network (although if you have your network DNS set up correctly it shouldn't make a difference.) Victor -- vpb@indite.org
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