On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 16:20 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Ricardo Kleemann writes:
> 
> > Thanks Sam.
> > 
> > But if I'm connecting to localhost, how does that play into reverse DNS?
> 
> It doesn't matter what your IP address is. Courier still attempts to resolve 
> it. The only thing that's special about localhost is that it's IP address is 
> 127.0.0.1
> 
> > The server is behind a firewall so the actual connecting address would
> > be an internal IP anyway. But in the case of localhost I don't
> > understand the role of reverse DNS and ident lookup.
> 
> Courier performs reverse/forward DNS lookup on the connecting IP address. 
> Whether it's localhost, or some other IP address, it doesn't make a 
> difference.

Ok, I see. So how typically does localhost resolve in reverse DNS? I am
using a dnscache in my firewall, I'm not sure how to make that work with
reverse DNS, anyone know?

Ricardo


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