At 04:42 PM 4/30/2002 -0400, you wrote: >On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:34:34PM -0500, Andrew Greenburg wrote: > > > >> >DNS?? > > >> > > >> Well, I've been trying to connect by IP address. > > > > > >No, I think what Ramin meant was "reverse DNS". > > > > > >Maybe the server is trying to do a reverse lookup on your IP address > to see > > >if it can put a hostname into its logfiles ? > > > > Could be, but I administer one of the boxes, and I haven't changed > anything > > to that effect on it. > > > > I did see the identd requests come across when initiating an FTP > > connection, but I'm getting these connection lapses when connecting to > > services that don't trigger an identd request (including http). > >Try to do the same packet sniffing for DNS. Actually, what is the IP of the >client? You should be able to resolve that to a DNS name (at least from the >server machine).
Well, the reverse DNS isn't there (and never has been). However, today is the first time that it has ever caused me problems. There may have been a change to one of our ISP's DNS servers, though. I'll look into it. -- Andrew M. Greenburg | agreenbu @ in-span . net Systems Engineer | (317)234-1001 (317)234-1328 Indiana Web Academy | Phone Fax
