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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 17:55:09 -0700
From: Eddie Fry <eddie@eaznet.com>
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Kevin Brown wrote:

> At 04:32 PM 8/14/97 -0700, Eddie Fry wrote:
> >
> >If I go to a site with reverse DNS
> authentication from any server listed
> in my in-addr.arpa file, no problem.  The
> problem occurs when a dial-in
> user or a Win 95 machine on my network (but not
> listed in my named files)
> tries to access one of these sites.

> Without a record in your in-addr.arpa.db, these
> hosts will not resolve
> reverse. So to answer your question quickly...
> Yes.  Do unto one, as you
> would the other.
>

So, my dial-in users CANNOT be reverse
authenticated unless I give each of them their own
IP address?  Kevin, please don't take this wrong.
That doesn't seem right to me.  You can't tell me
that anyone that uses server assigned IP addresses
is unable to, for example, download the US version
of Netscape???!?!?!?!?!?

Eddie

> ;
> ; domain.com.db
> ;
> blah
> ;
> first-host      IN      A       10.10.1.6
>
> then;
>
> ;
> ; 1.10.10.in-addr.arpa.db
> ;
> blah
> ;
>
> 6       IN      PTR     first-host
>
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