On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:34:34PM -0500, Andrew Greenburg wrote: > >> >DNS?? > >> > >> Well, I've been trying to connect by IP address. > > > >No, I think what Ramin meant was "reverse DNS". > > > >Maybe the server is trying to do a reverse lookup on your IP address to see > >if it can put a hostname into its logfiles ? > > Could be, but I administer one of the boxes, and I haven't changed anything > to that effect on it. > > I did see the identd requests come across when initiating an FTP > connection, but I'm getting these connection lapses when connecting to > services that don't trigger an identd request (including http).
Try to do the same packet sniffing for DNS. Actually, what is the IP of the client? You should be able to resolve that to a DNS name (at least from the server machine). Ramin > -- > Andrew M. Greenburg | agreenbu @ in-span . net > Systems Engineer | (317)234-1001 (317)234-1328 > Indiana Web Academy | Phone Fax >
