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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:52:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Reverse name lookup fails on *one* domain
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960920124312.6838A-100000@revelstone.jvm.com>

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We run the apache web server on fbsd 2.1.5.  We have a recurring problem
where we cannot get reverse name lookup on one particular domain.  We can
reverse anyone else we've tried and others can get reverse name lookups from
them.  It wouldn't be such a big deal except this domain is one of the
biggest ISPs in the area and lots of visitors come from there.  When this
problem kicks in, folks dialing in on their lines get huge wait times while
the reverse service times out. 

This same problem affects nslookup, ftp, telnet, etc, so its not a 
webserver-specific thing. The puzzling part is the intermittancy, it 
works fine for days, then dies for anything from a few minutes to several 
hours.  Rebooting does not clear the problem.

This problem's appearance seemed to coincide with the upgrade to 2.1.5, 
along with the inability for certain other formerly working programs to 
fork.

Any ideas at all?  The other guys are running BSDI and are willing to 
work with us, if we can give them a line of investigation.

Cliff



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