[plug] dns reverse lookup

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Adam Hewitt
> Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2007 9:29 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] dns reverse lookup
> 
> 
> 
> > -----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
<snip>
> > 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.

Correct. iiNet still have reverse DNS entries on dynamic IP, along the
lines of 203-59-14-16.dyn.iinet.net.au
Maybe the DNS server on the clients systems is running slow... How quick
does host or nslookup work on these boxes?

Craig F.