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[Chris Nestrud]

Sounds like your ISP has a ptr record for the ip address, but not an A
record. They should have both.

Chris



On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 rob at mur.org.uk wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:54:24PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> > Hi Rob: We have seen situations where the isp although providing a
> > domain name does not provide a reverse domain.  That means if you
> > connect to someplace that tries to do a reverse look-up which is very
> > common the provided name doesn't point back to the connecting ip
> > address.  In that situation most systems security protection system
> > kicks in and rejects the connection.
> > 
> > You might want to check to see if that is the case with your isp.
> 
> Reverse lookup on my ip address works, but looking up the name
> returned doesn't work. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Rob Murray
> 
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