Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:47:13 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS: having domain1.com and domain1.net point to the same IP. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009291843470.43354-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20000929155828.D21988@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Alan Clegg wrote: > Unless the network is lying to me again, James Wyatt said: > > Wow, reverse lookups only match some of the time?!?! I may be off-base > > again, but I thought a lot of things wanted reverse host entries that > > matched exactly for security verification. I read your last comment, but > > want to know what folks think would really happen. - Jy@ > > It used to be that lots of things depended on this, but, with the advent > of the clueless internet, people have had to turn off this test. I remember > when ftp.uu.net required you to have matching forward and inverse DNS. > > Long gone are those days. > > Yes, _some_ things still require you to have working DNS, but the inability > for providers to get simple things working _right_ has brought the network > to a state of extreme apathy. Most servers and protocols don't seem to have those annoying DNS lookup timeouts any more (Why is telnet hanging ... oh. nuts!), but I know a *lot* of SMTP gateways are more careful to avoid Spam relaying. (Ours are a lot more careful than they were. Grrrr.) > When the response by the ISP in the wrong is "well, you are one of very few > people that my clients can't talk to, so you must be broken", and that is > the line that they are feeding their clients, what are you to do? "The bland leading the blind", eh? (^_^) Take care - Jy@ btw: Have we generated enough mail on this subject yet? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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