Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:26:32 -0500 From: Rick Siple <RickSiple@mpainc.com> To: "Chat Mailing List (E-mail)" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Reverse IP lookups for cdrom.com? Message-ID: <50D018439050D211AFB1006008CEB82D0615EA@EXCHANGESERVER>
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Dumb question from an internet novice. When my company changed internet service providers, somebody fumbled the ball and forgot to tell out new provider to that they should be maintaining out inverse lookup DNS zone (the .in-addr.arpa zone, in case I have the terminology wrong) as well as our normal zone (mpainc.com). (This seemed very odd to me, why would they maintain our primary DNS for mpainc.com but not for the inverse zone?) So for four days we were functioning without our inverse lookup zone. During this period of time some mail was, understandably, undeliverable. (Spam blockage I am assuming.) There were also, though, several web sites that did not respond. cdrom.com was one of them. After ARIN fixed our registration cdrom.com started working. Just wondered if and why cdrom.com was attempting a reverse lookup for web browsing. __________ Rick Siple ricksiple@mpainc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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