Firewall DNS reverse- forward lookup

admjcd admjcd at volpe.dot.gov
Thu Jan 1 15:51:19 UTC 2004



Hello all,

  WE are having an issue with our Raptor firewall dropping packets because of a reverse - forward lookup fails. Here is the log and a link to why raptor logs it:

  "mw203.mail2world.com 66.28.189.203: reverse address 66.28.189.80 doesn't match -- denied"

 http://www.firetower.com/faqs/logfiles/dnserrors.html

  My questions is :  Is this a valid security check (reverse-forward)?  Is there a problem with mail2world.com's DNS setup? Is Raptors' rule to just drop these connections valid?  How would such a rule handle round-robin, where a forward lookup can return a a different IP? Or a number of IP's?  Do any of you have any experience with this?  TIA  And happy new Year!!!.



   


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