[wplug] Reverse DNS lookup problems
Scott Bourns
scott at scottbourns.com
Fri Mar 21 09:31:53 EST 2003
I called my ISP to let them know my IP is not resolving to reverse DNS
lookups, and the tech support said, "What's that?"
I might be in trouble. ;(
Scott
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 17:00, Lance Tost wrote:
> 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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