Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:27:22 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.oau.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS Reverse Lookup Message-ID: <199711190027.TAA09405@bilver.oau.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971118095437.4104A-100000@lithium.dowco.com> from Kevin McKinnon at "Nov 18, 97 10:01:18 am"
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Recently Kevin McKinnon said: > On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, John Brown wrote: > > When My users attempt to download anything that requires reverse DNS > > authentication (Like the 128 bit encryption stuff) they are being denied > > because the ip cannot be associated with a name. > > > > Any Ideas on how I make this work, or a place that will has DNS related > > examples. > You might check with your backbone provider to see if they've delgated > reverse lookups for your IP block to your nameserver. It's possible that > MCI still shows that *they* are doing the reverse lookups for your > addresses. (This happened to me with SprintLink last year, same symptoms > that you describe.) > If they are still set to provide reverse lookups, you need to get *them* > to delegate it to you... you can't have it changed yourself. He doesn't say what equipment he has so here's another guess. If you have some terminal server it will allocated IPs from a pool of addresses. Just assisgn a name to each one of the IPs and in your reverse table too. (this assumes you are doing your own DNS)home | help
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