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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Limits on apache 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jul 1997 00:44:34 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 00:52:03 -0400
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spork wrote in message ID
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> On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Gary Palmer wrote:

> > Thats broken. A number of ftp sites won't let you on without a valid
> > DNS entry for both A and PTR records. I'd ask my ISP to fix their DNS
> > if they weren't giving reverses. It's just plain stupid.

> And very common...

I hope they at least explain to their customers why some sites are
unreachable. There should be an RFC against such sloppiness.

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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