From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 27 21:22:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23062 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (sneaker.net.au [61.8.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23045 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:22:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@sneaker.net.au) Received: from goodluck (ppp02.sneaker.net.au [61.8.14.33]) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA09559 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:47:40 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:20:21 +0800 From: richard To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re:FTP server requires reverse DNS lookup Message-Id: <36873F45BE.3A36RICHARD@mail.sneaker.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver 1.24 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG richard wrote: >> Received: from goodluck (ppp01.sneaker.net.au [61.8.14.32]) > > by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA20624 > > for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:40:37 +1100 (EST) > >I fail to to download fwtk from ftp.tis.com as I am using dynamic IP and > >of cause don't have a registed domain name but they required reverse DNS > >lookup. >You may not have a domain, but even your dynamic IP has a reverse name. >(the Received: header I quoted above showed that your IP mapped to >ppp01.sneaker.net.au.) Could you be more specific about the problem you >are having, including any error messages tis.com is giving you? There >shouldn't be a problem with reverse lookup of your IP address. -- >Ben Smithurst >ben@scientia.demon.co.uk I got the following msg: 520 - This FTP server requires the ability to perform reverse DNS lookup on all addresses connecting to it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message