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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