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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:50:06 +0800 (CCT)
From:      Ronald Wiplinger <ronald@linkou.trace.com.tw>
To:        Verdell Hicks <verdell@novalink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Name Server Q
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.93.961122124732.24437A-100000@linkou.trace.com.tw>
In-Reply-To: <32952C9A.5AC@novalink.com>

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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Verdell Hicks wrote:

> Okay,
> 	It is hard to see the logic in my original nameserver question.  This
> is the problem.  The Machines name is loki.novalink.com with a canonical
> name of news.novalink.com.  When our news feed does a reverse lookup on
> news.novalink.com's IP address it denies me to post news messages.  How
> about I show you what he said.
> 

How about just to swap the real and the alias name in the name.hosts?


> 
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> 	Verdell,
> 
>         The problem appears to be in the PTR record in your DNS.  Please
> observe.
> 
> nslookup news.novalink.com
> Server:  ns.pcy.mci.net
> Address:  204.70.138.79
>  
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    loki.novalink.com
> Address:  192.233.90.158
> Aliases:  news.novalink.com
> 
> That much is perfect, BUT...
> 
> nslookup 192.233.90.158
> Server:  ns.pcy.mci.net
> Address:  204.70.138.79
>  
> Name:    loki.novalink.com
> Address:  192.233.90.158
> 
> Since the PTR record does not resolve with the alias, newsfeed is
> denying you 
> access.  Please correct the PTR record so that is resolves identically
> to
> the A record.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>                         Jeremy W. Powell 
>              InternetMCI Usenet News Administrator
>                           Arlington,VA
>                          jeremy@mci.net
> *******************************************************************
>       "Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the
>         progress of the human mind." --Thomas Jefferson
> *******************************************************************
> 
> ----- Begin Included Message -----
> 
> _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> 
> Does it make more since now?  Actually I am having even bigger problems
> now.  I made the mistake of modfying my active file for inn and now the
> system keeps responding to me with cant symlink the different messages. 
> Furthermore it seems like it only get messages the first time it
> connects to mci, after that everything is all zeros.  Everything worked
> great before I modified that damn active file.  I saved the original and
> copied it back to active and it is still screwed up.  I cant get the
> command line right to renumber the entire active file.  This is a real
> nightmare.  News isn't working right now and I am soo tired till the
> answer wouldn't be apparent to me if it were right in my face.  If
> anyone has any suggestions please send them along.
> 
> 
> 													Verdell
> 





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