[wplug] Reverse DNS lookup problems

Lance Tost ltost at pobox.com
Thu Mar 20 17:00:39 EST 2003


On 20 Mar 2003, Scott Bourns wrote:
> So, I went to DNS Stuff and did a reverse DNS lookup on my ISPs DNS - no
> problems, it resolved. Then I did my firewall/router's public gateway -
> no joy. Then I tried the router interface's public static IP - no joy.
>
> Is that normal? I wasn't sure if my actual broadcasting public IP or
> just ISP's name servers were the one's that should be able to resolve.
>

You need your actual IP address to resolve to a hostname... so it looks
like at least part of your problem is probaby due to that.  It's been a
couple days now and mine still aren't resolving :\

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>




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