From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 17 17:22:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10444 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:22:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (root@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10362 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:21:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.xmission.com) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.7/8.7.5) id RAA14978; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:29:48 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199802180029.RAA14978@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: FTP and Telnet pblms with Ethernet To: harry@visiontm.com (Harry Patterson) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:29:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01bd3b9e$450ea0a0$d86190cf@harry> from "Harry Patterson" at Feb 17, 98 07:19:18 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Harry Patterson asked: > Another reader had the same question. This certainly makes sense, but > (please exuse a newbie to FreeBSD) the Win95 box doesn't run DNS. What needs > to be set where in Win95 to allow the reverse DNS to take place. It pings Nothing needs to be setup in Win95 to allow reverse DNS; this has to be configured at your DNS server. A "forward" lookup is "find me the address for this name", an "reverse" lookup is "find me the name for this address." > fine. Do I need the win95 dns settings in tcp/ip (sounds like a dumb > question with the direction you are heading). Are these dns settings created > automatically by win95 dial up networking when you connect through an isp? The ISP would have to have setup their DNS server to support both types of lookups. If you're experiencing problems, they probably haven't. Try this: dial in and check your IP address. We'll assume you were given the address 204.203.202.201, because it's fun to type. Login to a good UNIX system somewhere and type 'nslookup -type=ptr 204.203.202.201'. If you get an name back quickly, and can 'nslookup name' and get 204.203.202.201 as the IP address, you're correctly configured. If not, your ISP is at fault and needs to fix their DNS server. As several others have pointed out, the reason ping and http work quickly is because they are not doing reverse DNS lookups. If you want to really test your ability to do reverse DNS, try logging into ftp.uu.net as user 'anonymous'. If they let you login, you're probably doing just fine. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message