As it turns out ping and using url's do work. Nslookup seems to get hung-up if the LRP is not configured in DNS. The point is, IE is able to resolve URL's and that is really what I needed.
> Beats me. Ask your ISP. Me, I can only *guess* that the ISP did something > to its DNS servers that causes them to return a dummy response (a "null" > hostname in their domain space) whever queried for a 192.168.c.d reverse > lookup. I've never actually seen anything like that before, which is why I > was so puzzled about your earlier report. Somehow my ISP is registering (dynamically?) the LRP box but the rest of the DNS servers are not that forgiving. I am masqing the internal IP so who knows. Many thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Olszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ALParada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [leaf-user] dnscache > At 06:52 PM 11/7/2003 -0500, ALParada wrote: > >There is no record for the LRP in the primary DNS. Now that I added one > >and the associated PTR it works. However, why did it work with the ISP > >DNS servers? > > I've sort of lost track of the earlier stages in your investigation ... did > you actually try (and fail) to get dnscache to work with, for example, a > browser attempting to resolve the FQN part of a URL? (Your original message > says only: "I however can't resolve any names", not what you used in your > attempts.) > > My own DNS here is set to respond properly to reverse lookups, and I'm > disinclined to break my own setup just to see how much of it will still > work. So offhand I'm not sure how general the requirement is that the > nameserver be able to resolve itself by reverse lookup. > > And the forwarders do not have to know that you exist (except in the sense > that they need to know a route back to you). You have to know that they > exist, and if they are set up properly, you do. That has nothing to do with > this problem, which requires only that a nameserver be able to answer both > a lookup and a reverse lookup for itself. > > >Thanks, > [old stuff deleted] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, > 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest > developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, > WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
