reverse lookup
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Thu Jul 11 19:16:27 UTC 2002
Bereunix <bernd.euler at henkel.com> wrote:
> I need understanding about reverse lookup and how to deactivate if it
> is not needed.
> We have several RFC 1918 DHCP networks running for remote access. The
> problem is, that e.g. unix servers try to make a reverse address
> lookup up if an remote client tries to start an remote execution on
> the server. For the RFC 1918
> networks we don´t want to have a reverse address lookup (we haven´t
> set it up in our dns-servers either).
It's a lot of work to make shure no applications does a reverse lookup.
It's considerly less work to set up an ( possibly empty) reverse
on your nameserver, about 30 minutes of work including testing.
> bereunix
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