From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 6:36:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-1.smartworld.net (mrs-1-fix.smartworld.net [216.70.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B6837C235 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 06:36:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnormandin@freewwweb.com) Received: from odie (1Cust84.tnt3.calgary.ab.da.uu.net [64.10.177.84]) by mrs-1.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA14786; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:36:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <007b01bfdd18$69c90ac0$54b10a40@odie> From: "Duke Normandin" To: "Jan Grant" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Sendmail and DNS Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:32:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, June 23, 2000 2:38 AM Jan Grant wrote: >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 Pleeeease ...... "good bedtime reading???? I may be middle-aged and shedding like a mangy dog, but I can still think of better things to do/read at bedtime ;^)) --- unless of course I "need" to fall asleep ASAP. Thanks for the pointers..... -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message