In a message dated: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 10:54:46 EST "Jerry Feldman" said:
>When you ping an IP address, you are not doing a reverse DNS, you are >simply accessing the ip address. No DNS is involved, simply routers. >Reverse DNS is used by mail servers to validate that an email message comes >from the host it purports to be. (eg. anti-SPAM). IIRC, RH7.0 actually *DID* attempt a reverse-dns look up when ping'ing an IP address. Note, this was a bug, and not the expected/desirable behavior. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
