[8005] in North American Network Operators' Group
in-addr problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William S. Duncanson)
Thu Mar 6 02:41:22 1997
From: "William S. Duncanson" <william@neosoft.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: <msnnoc@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 01:35:20 -0600
> Has anyone noticed lately that there have been a lot of problems getting
> in-addr information on ms.uu.net ip addresses? At first I thought it was
a
> problem with a.root-servers.net, but it appears to be on the MSN/UUNet
> side. We've had numerous customers of theirs complain that they could
not
> get to some of our sites, or that it was taking a lot longer than usual.
> We looked at the logs, and sure enough, we're getting "refused connect
from
> aaa.xxx.yyy.zzz: gethostbyaddr() failed" messages from the IP addresses
> that they're coming from. So, the question is, should we disable this
> temporarily, or just wait for UUNet/MSN to get their act together?
>
> William S. Duncanson
> william@neosoft.com
> NeoSoft Operations
> (888) NEOSOFT or (713) 968-5800
>
