From owner-freebsd-security Fri May 4 5:59:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 422D637B423 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 05:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 18376 invoked by uid 1000); 4 May 2001 12:57:25 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 15:57:25 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Andrew Barros Cc: "lists@mail.ru" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reverse or not Message-ID: <20010504155725.Q13382@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Barros , "lists@mail.ru" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010503145244.00a12e50@nol.co.za> <20010503170027.B9233@tjhsst.edu> <3AF1DC23.32BB39B3@globalstar.com> <3AF23077.55DEA3D8@mail.ru> <20010504084039.G9233@tjhsst.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010504084039.G9233@tjhsst.edu>; from abarros@tjhsst.edu on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:40:39AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:40:39AM -0400, Andrew Barros wrote: > > There are two things that I'm sure of > > 1) The boxes have correct reverse DNS > > 2) They use ns1.tjhsst.edu as their nameserver(a different box) > which has the correct reverse DNS > > The problem is that while these things are true, and out T1 is up > it works normally. When the T1 goes out, it takes a _long_ time. Telnet > ,however, is unaffected by this. When you say 'correct reverse DNS', you do mean 127.0.0.1 too, right? And (a stupid question, but one that needs asking nevertheless) ns1.tjhsst.edu is reachable when your T1 goes down, right? G'luck, Peter -- If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message