[plug] dns reverse lookup

[Adam Hewitt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Peter Sutter
> Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2007 9:17 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] dns reverse lookup
> 
> Can somebody please enlighten me about which other linux programs will
> not
> work unless a successful reverse dns lookup can be made. I found so far
> 4,
> ftp, ssh and smtp and rsync.
> 
> I rely heavily on these programs to support my customers, but in its
> wisdom,
> iinet decided not to provide reverse lookups for dynamic ip addresses.
> This
> makes my systems unreachable for those iinet customers that have a
> dynamic ip
> addresses.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter

I believe it is against IANA policy to not have reverse lookups on any IP's.
As I used to work for iiNet as a Systems Engineer I am fairly sure that they
do have reverse lookups for their IP's. It's possible that it is a new range
that's been added and not put into their database and therefore not being
automagically added to the Bind config.

Try calling them and ask. Or maybe the iiLurkers could reply.

Adam.