From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 2:32:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tninet.se (sheridan.tninet.se [195.100.94.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDD837B416 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 02:32:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.umu.se (h27n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.27]) by sheridan.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 966343.669958.1015.1s3975722sheridan ; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 11:32:38 +0100 Message-ID: <3C89E4C7.672B9E05@cs.umu.se> Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 11:32:39 +0100 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reverse DNS.. Additional info.. References: <3C8952A6.CC90A07C@cs.umu.se> <20020309202103.A2449@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:09:10AM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote: > > Hi again! > > > > I now discovered that I can connect to Apache from my Windows- > > computer, on my internal network, without problem. Apache is > > running as standalone, but telnetd is started from inetd. Is > > the problem related to inetd? > > No. It's a reverse DNS lookup. Telnetd does one, but Apache doesn't. > Either run a internal DNS with the IP addresses reverse-ptr'd or add > the IP addresses to the /etc/hosts file of the machine in questions. Putting the Windows computer IP and name in the /etc/hosts did solve my problem! I didn't know there were done any DNS lookups when con- necting by IP-number, as it should find the address on the network right away. I tried out a lot of things, but not that particular one, so thanks a lot, Jonathan! Best regards, Paul PS: nz? Did fly half way around the globe for a vacation there some time ago. A very nice country! :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message