Mark M. Barrios said: > hi, > > theyre reffering to the reverse lookup... thats how servers get > hostnames by looking at the reverse dns of the ip that connects to > them. some mailservers are a bit too paranoid and dont allow clients > without out reverse mapings or records that dont match their forward > and reverse lookups... conforming to some RFC
that's weird. i tried doing an nslookup pointed to some other server and it was able to reverse-resolve our servers' IPs into an FQDN... -andre _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
