Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:27:23 -0400 From: Dan Armstrong <dan@beanfield.com> To: Richard Smith <rdls@rdls.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent help with Reverse Lookups and FTPD Message-ID: <3B2FC3BB.69DA34B8@beanfield.com> References: <3B2F74D7.C057B32F@beanfield.com> <20010619215922.C1074@gaia.home.rdls.net>
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yo SO 'da MAN! That works PERFECTLY!! Sorry, I am dancing around the room right now. I have just had a day from you know where with users calling me from all corners complaining about FTP not working. I just made one new zone 168.192.in-addr.arpa, put no hosts in it and, as you said the reverse fails immediately. I owe you a drink! (If you are ever in Toronto) :-) Dan. Richard Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:50:47AM -0400, Dan Armstrong wrote: > > We are a small ISP, and just turned up a new webserver running Free4.3 > > > > Most of our customers live on private (192.168) addresses and I am > > getting slaughtered with phone calls that they cannot ftp into their > > sites, and it is because their ftp programs don't necessarily wait for > > Free's ftpd to timeout doing the reverse lookup, for an address that of > > course does not have any reverse information for it. If I add their > > IP to the /etc/hosts BOOM they get in instantly. These thousands of > > addresses are all dynamically assigned, so the hosts file fix is not > > possible on this scale. Is there a way I can get it to stop? HELP! > > Just a random thought, if you made your name server authoritative for > the zone "168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA", it would fail the reverse lookup > immediately. > > Rich. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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