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Date:      Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:54:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        groggy11@mail.com
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bad isp - dns
Message-ID:  <20020427225352.A60035-100000@master.gorean.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204280309.g3S39An58790@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net>

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On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 groggy11@mail.com wrote:

> this is a problem in regards to FreeBSD maillists.
> FBSD maillists do a DNS lookup on any host sending
> email.  my ISP refuses to pass on DNS queries to
> my server, so clients on my network cannot
> have their name->number mappings answered.
>
> i have had this problem for years, and
> the ISP is the major telephone/communications
> company for the city.  i don't guess i have any
> "rights" to force them to pass on DNS queries
> to my server - so what can i do???

Use nat so that the outside world only sees one IP that has proper forward
and reverse mapping.


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