[ale] DirecTV DSL - No Reverse DNS

[James P. Kinney III]

This prevents you from running servers. It also prevents you from
accessing the ftp-linux repository at gatech. 

On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 11:14, Ben Alexander wrote:
> I am a DirecTV DSL customer and noticed that there was no reverse DNS
> associated with my IP.  I contacted Customer Support and they stated:
> "At this time we are not offering reverse DNS mapping to IP addresses."
> 
> Isn't it usually a common practice for ISPs to have reverse DNS
> associated with IP addresses?  I know some FTP servers will not let you
> connect if they cannot do a reverse lookup.  Anyone else think that this
> is strange?
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
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