From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 1:37:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FDF37B946 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:37:41 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28841; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:37:39 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:37:39 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Duke Normandin Cc: cjclark , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Sendmail and DNS In-Reply-To: <009501bfdcc1$afc9cca0$47b10a40@odie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Duke Normandin wrote: > Would you know of a web reference that would explain the diff. > between dns / reverse-dns. I'm also assuming that > lookups / reverse-lookups refer to the same thing. Tia... I dunno about web references (isc.org?) but for what it's worth the ORA DNS+BIND book (you'll want the 3rd ed) has a pretty good explanation of how the DNS system works. If the usual transatlantic conversion rates operate, it's probably about 25 USD, so give it a look - the equivalent of a frugal night out _and_ good bedtime reading too. jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Leverage that synergy! Ooh yeah, looking good! Now stretch - and relax. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message