Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:56:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reverse DNS problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970129195621.25390Y-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199701291713.LAA08073@shell.futuresouth.com>
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On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Tim Tsai wrote: > I'm having a problem that my provider is unable to explain. Let me > demonstrate by an example: > > from 207.141.254.20: lynx www.sarc.msstate.edu > > The connection will be immediate, but it will be 2 minutes before > any data is transferred back. telnet/ftp will send the prompt back > immediately (we're only 7 hops apart afterall). > Check /etc/resolv.conf; make sure you have a valid nameserver. > See the pattern here? Note that this applies to all 207.141.254. > machines. Can somebody tell me where to even start > tracking down the problem? If it's a reverse DNS lookup problem, is > there any utilities/commands that I can run to verify? My provider is > handling my primary DNS, by the way. Is named running on this machine? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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