From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 4 15:14:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28042 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from exchangeserver.mpainc.com ([198.246.145.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28035 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:14:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from RickSiple@mpainc.com) Received: by EXCHANGESERVER with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:27:07 -0500 Message-ID: <50D018439050D211AFB1006008CEB82D0615EA@EXCHANGESERVER> From: Rick Siple To: "Chat Mailing List (E-mail)" Subject: Reverse IP lookups for cdrom.com? Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:26:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dumb question from an internet novice. When my company changed internet service providers, somebody fumbled the ball and forgot to tell out new provider to that they should be maintaining out inverse lookup DNS zone (the .in-addr.arpa zone, in case I have the terminology wrong) as well as our normal zone (mpainc.com). (This seemed very odd to me, why would they maintain our primary DNS for mpainc.com but not for the inverse zone?) So for four days we were functioning without our inverse lookup zone. During this period of time some mail was, understandably, undeliverable. (Spam blockage I am assuming.) There were also, though, several web sites that did not respond. cdrom.com was one of them. After ARIN fixed our registration cdrom.com started working. Just wondered if and why cdrom.com was attempting a reverse lookup for web browsing. __________ Rick Siple ricksiple@mpainc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message