From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 5 12:53:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00255 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from exchangeserver.mpainc.com (proxy.mpainc.com [198.246.145.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00242 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:53:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from RickSiple@mpainc.com) Received: by EXCHANGESERVER with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:04:56 -0500 Message-ID: <50D018439050D211AFB1006008CEB82D0615EB@EXCHANGESERVER> From: Rick Siple To: "'Chat Mailing List (E-mail)'" Subject: RE: Reverse IP lookups for cdrom.com? Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:04:48 -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 Nevermind, our old ISP is still "advertising" that he can route to our network and is still accepting mail on our behalf. Cute. Sorry for the dumb question. __________ Rick Siple ricksiple@mpainc.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Siple > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 12:27 PM > To: Chat Mailing List (E-mail) > Subject: Reverse IP lookups for cdrom.com? > > 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