Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?

["Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden () geek net>]

Most providers provide some kind for forward/reverse mapping, including
ATTBI.  Often, however, they do provide customized reverse mapping (ie,
myhost.mydomain.com).  That may be where the disconnect.

I believe that ATTBI has a script that auto-generates forward/reverse
mappings on a regular basis.  You client may be just in a waiting period
before the problem corrects itselft.

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Lou Katz wrote:

> A client of mine just discovered that he could no longer do ftp
> transfers to my machine. His IP address had changed to one in
> 12.240.20 and there is no reverse DNS for that block. His
> previous assignment was in a totally different block which did
> have reverse DNS. Calls to ATTBI got the answer that they
> are not obligated to provide reverse DNS and have no plans to
> do so. My servers refuse connections when there is no reverse
> lookup.
>
> Is this common?