Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:41:15 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Joshua Lokken" <inspector.us@omicnet.com>, <james_mapson@museum.rain.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Reverse name lookups Message-ID: <004c01c2ecde$b3de2450$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <OAEGJMOGEKPEGCNHFDFFGEMJCDAA.inspector.us@omicnet.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Lokken" <inspector.us@omicnet.com> To: <james_mapson@museum.rain.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:04 PM Subject: RE: Reverse name lookups > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Long [mailto:list@museum.rain.com] > > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:21 PM > > To: Joshua Lokken > > Subject: Re: Reverse name lookups > > > > > > > So, I'd like to go to the next option, "/or set up an > > ARPA zone for > > > reverse DNS." > > > However, I've read and it's been suggested that unless I have two > > > static IPs, I > > > cannot manage my own DNS. What do I need to do? Thanks > > for any help. > > > > Hi, Joshua. > > > > Can you send me a specific IP and hostname so that I can do > > some lookups > > to see what the status quo is? And can you also tell me > > what you'd like > > the status quo to be? > > > > Jim > > > > No problem. > > IP 12.225.249.250 <== dynamically assigned by attbi.com, but hasn't > changed in 2 years. > domain joshualokken.com > > nslookups for joshualokken.com are fine. They point to > 12.225.249.250. > nslookups for 12.225.249.250 resolve fine, but point to > 12-225-249-250.client.attbi.com, > > so, for example, if I send mail to questions from my 'main' account at > home, it gets > returned, because it doesn't recognize jolok@joloxbox.joshualokken.com > as a valid > host. > > I would like to be able to maintain a mailserver for > *@joshualokken.com, and have > www.joshualokken.com resolve correctly. Now I'm getting 'unable to > connect with > remote host' when I point to www.joshualokken.com, and like I said, > returned email > from home. > > I'll gladly post more info if it helps. Thanks, Since you're using zoneedit, add a CNAME entry for joloxbox.joshualokken.com that points to joshualokken.com. That way when you expose "internal" hostnames on the internet, they will be resolvable. I have had to do this to two of my internal boxes whose hostnames sometimes leak out in email headers. (Damn sendmail -- when I say masquerade, I mean it!) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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