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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:59:22 -0700
From:      Dave Young <dave@boldfish.com>
To:        <lists@brenius.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ISP DNS blocking?! (was Re: fetchmail protocol error caused by DNS timeout - solution?)
Message-ID:  <200210221259.22683.dave@boldfish.com>
In-Reply-To: <003701c27a02$186cc520$be01a8c0@afi>
References:  <20021020215055.GA586@kirk.dlee.org> <20021022182620.GA16676@kirk.dlee.org> <003701c27a02$186cc520$be01a8c0@afi>

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> For any DNS experts, could you please elaborate on the above information? I
> was directed to it when I mentioned the use of nslookup in a DNS problem.

this comes from the DNS server not being able to look up a PTR (reverse DNS, 
IP to NAME) for itself. Either create a reverse zone on the DNS server (if 
that server uses itself for DNS) or create the reverse zone on the DNS server 
the DNS server uses. Or just use dig instead of nslookup.


hth,

-Dave






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