From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 28 11:25:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4815F37B41F for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from master.gorean.org (sygxwnhetrhciyp5@master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3SIPSQ9088180; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by master.gorean.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g3S5sg3m061138; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:54:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: master.gorean.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:54:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: doug@master.gorean.org To: groggy11@mail.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bad isp - dns In-Reply-To: <200204280309.g3S39An58790@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net> Message-ID: <20020427225352.A60035-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 groggy11@mail.com wrote: > this is a problem in regards to FreeBSD maillists. > FBSD maillists do a DNS lookup on any host sending > email. my ISP refuses to pass on DNS queries to > my server, so clients on my network cannot > have their name->number mappings answered. > > i have had this problem for years, and > the ISP is the major telephone/communications > company for the city. i don't guess i have any > "rights" to force them to pass on DNS queries > to my server - so what can i do??? Use nat so that the outside world only sees one IP that has proper forward and reverse mapping. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message