UPDATE: Re: [wplug] Reverse DNS lookup problems

[Scott Bourns]

Lance:

Just wanted to let you know. That was exactly the problem with the
timeouts I was having with POP and FTP. Everything is screaming fast
since I had our ISP place an entry for RDNS for us.

Thanks, so much.

Scott


On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 16:17, Lance Tost wrote:
> BTW, some ftp servers will flat out tell you that this is the problem:
> 
> Connecting to ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu(130.207.108.134)...
> tricia.cc.gatech.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2-5external) ready.
> Sorry, your domain name cannot be determined from your IP address
> (1.2.3.4).  For security reasons, this server will not allow
> connections from IP addresses without a reverse lookup record
> in the Domain Name Service (DNS).
> 
> -- 
> Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>
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