From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 14 17:19:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA23694 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 17:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.primelink.com (ns1.primelink.com [206.24.58.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23660 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 17:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hack ([205.242.94.157]) by ns1.primelink.com (post.office MTA v1.9.3 ID# 0-11777) with SMTP id AAA191; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 19:21:16 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970814191610.0091a330@mail.primelink.com> X-Sender: darkstar@mail.primelink.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 19:16:13 -0400 To: Eddie Fry , isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kevin Brown Subject: Re: reverse DNS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 04:32 PM 8/14/97 -0700, Eddie Fry wrote: > >If I go to a site with reverse DNS authentication from any server listed in my in-addr.arpa file, no problem. The problem occurs when a dial-in user or a Win 95 machine on my network (but not listed in my named files) tries to access one of these sites. Without a record in your in-addr.arpa.db, these hosts will not resolve reverse. So to answer your question quickly... Yes. Do unto one, as you would the other. IE: ; ; domain.com.db ; blah ; first-host IN A 10.10.1.6 then; ; ; 1.10.10.in-addr.arpa.db ; blah ; 6 IN PTR first-host ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Kevin Brown ---------->(kbrown@primelink.com) -- email ->(darkstar@sockets.net) ---------->(darkstar@frequency.net) Huber and Associates (www.primelink.com) Frequency Networks (www.frequency.net) ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ------------------------------------------------------------------ Pursuate to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Sec. 227, any and all nonsolicited commercial E-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US. Emailing denotes acceptance of these terms. ------------------------------------------------------------------