Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:56:10 -0700 From: Patrick Burm <patb@commlitho.com> To: "John Brown" <jbrown@vafibre.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DNS Reverse Lookup Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19971118105610.007ed860@commlitho.com> In-Reply-To: <01bcf443$a865a0b0$3e01017d@is01.vafibre.com>
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Have you checked the status of the in-addr.arpa for your class c(s)? You may find that your backbone is primary for it and is not loading any information, so when outsiders do reverse they get nothing, but insiders get the info, because you are claiming to be primary. At 12:01 PM 11/18/97 -0500, John Brown wrote: >I have made an attempt to establish the ability to do reverse lookups on my >DNS server and when I use nslookup to check my ip to name resolution it >appears to work correctly. > >When My users attempt to download anything that requires reverse DNS >authentication (Like the 128 bit encryption stuff) they are being denied >because the ip cannot be associated with a name. > >Any Ideas on how I make this work, or a place that will has DNS related >examples. > >Am I not able to use nslookup to check my reverse lookups?
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