- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:25:08 -0500
- To: Isamar Maia <isamar@ruby.magiclink.com.br>
- Cc: js@w3.org
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.951124155146.13590A-100000@ruby>, Isamar Maia writes: > >Dear Sirs, > >Sorry if I'm out of topic but my DialUp SLIP/PPP users cannot get W3 >pages but other services using winsock. I've looked for the solution >through several ways but no success. You too, huh? I noticed this problem when I was at a conference in Texas. I called our system administrator, but everything looked fine from his end. Our best hypothesis at this point is that our server does a reverse DNS lookup on your address, and refuses service if that fails. Since the box I was using in Texas had no DNS hostname registered, I couldn't get at www.w3.org. Can anyone else confirm this? The strange thing is that we have the server configured to _not_ do reverse DNS lookups in the interest of performance! Dan
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