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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
