From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 2:57: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shalimar.net.au (shalimar.net.au [198.142.161.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD3237B479 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:56:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from shalimar.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shalimar.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eAMAusN02034 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:56:55 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from count@shalimar.net.au) From: Zero Sum Organization: Tobacco Chewers and Body Painters Association. Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:56:54 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Demonic Naming service. MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00112221565405.00531@shalimar.net.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please enlighten; I have looked up IPs I found in my firewall logs and, no surprise, some of them do not reverse resolve. No surprise, faked IP, presumably. BUT, I can traceroute and ping the IPs. So they must exist. My conclusion; I have something stuffed in my DNS. Is my conclusion correct? Is my reasoning correct? I've just noticed that my machine has had an smtp conversation with an unresolvable host "202.98.16.1". Ethereal shows a normal mail conversation (w/out going inside the packets). Does that confirm I have a bum DNS setup? Or since my ISP couldn't resolve it, does it confirm that their DNS is stuffed? Geoff -- count@shalimar.net.au Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message