Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: no inverse mappings Message-ID: Date: 11 Aug 90 07:58:44 GMT References: <1990Aug10.152144.17260@ee.rochester.edu> <1990Aug10.162416.22650@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Aug10.222515.12542@iwarp.intel.com> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com's message of 10 Aug 90 22:25:15 GMT In article <1990Aug10.222515.12542@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: I could get out on the net (because the routes were right), but uunet and a few others kept bumping me. And there wasn't anything I could do about it.... So, once again... *don't* kick us off because of things we cannot control! (And yeah, I *am* the friggin admin, so telling me to see my admin doesn't help!) I see anonymous FTP servers that bounce connections from people without functioning .in-addr.arpa pointer records as the rough moral equivalent of the Rabid Rerouters (and Domain Absolutist Rabid Rerouters etc) discussed not so long ago in comp.mail.uucp. It's not appropriate for everyone in the world to run them, but the presence of a few of them in the world calls attention to the problem and are a good thing On The Whole even though in some cases some people are inconvenienced. Besides it provides a real easy touchstone on whether your in-addr stuff is working ok, just FTP to uunet and see if you get in.... --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept Da ich in der naeheren Umgebung nicht gefunden habe, habe ich ihn aus USA geftp't.