On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:47:25AM -0800, James Couzens wrote:
This is because his DNS is not published correctly. Upon further
examination you'll see that his PTR record does not match because its
does not validate. It does not validate because the reversely obtained
hostname 'du1-61-as5800-towanda.dial.chilitech.net' (from 198.69.197.61)
does not in turn then resolve forward to '198.69.197.61' and thus misses
the PTR bus and hops on the fail train.
Serial number one, and an authoritative fail:
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;61.197.69.198.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
197.69.198.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN SOA castor.chilitech.net.
admin.chilitech.net. 1 900 600 86400 3600
cheers,
Alex