[9336] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Winsock Help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Perry)
Fri Nov 24 13:56:47 1995
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:52:18 -0800
From: William Perry <wmperry@spry.com>
To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
Reply-To: wmperry@spry.com
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199511241825.NAA05923@beach.w3.org>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Daniel W. Connolly writes:
> In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.951124155146.13590A-100000@ruby>, Isamar Maia writes:
> >
> >Dear Sirs,
> >
> >Sorry if I'm out of topic but my DialUp SLIP/PPP users cannot get W3
> >pages but other services using winsock. I've looked for the solution
> >through several ways but no success.
>
> You too, huh? I noticed this problem when I was at a conference
> in Texas. I called our system administrator, but everything looked
> fine from his end.
>
> Our best hypothesis at this point is that our server does a
> reverse DNS lookup on your address, and refuses service if
> that fails. Since the box I was using in Texas had no DNS
> hostname registered, I couldn't get at www.w3.org.
>
> Can anyone else confirm this?
>
> The strange thing is that we have the server configured to
> _not_ do reverse DNS lookups in the interest of performance!
I can get to www.w3.org from home via our PPP dialins, which do not have
publicly exported DNS entries, so that can't be the only thing contributing
to it.
-Bill P.c
