- From: William Perry <wmperry@spry.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:52:18 -0800
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Daniel W. Connolly writes: > 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! I can get to www.w3.org from home via our PPP dialins, which do not have publicly exported DNS entries, so that can't be the only thing contributing to it. -Bill P.c
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