[ale] Ga Tech's FTP server status

[Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu]

At 09:26 AM 6/8/99 -0400, you wrote:
>To extend the question: 
>
>How do you deal with a situation like mindspring where they are supplying
>you with a different IP address everytime you log on and you  want to give
>your computer some other name than localhost.localdomain?

Just because Mindspring is giving you a dynamic IP address doesn't mean it
will not appear in the DNS tables.

     user-38lcac4.dialup.mindspring.com = 209.86.41.132

The headers in the original message showed that lilElvis at smyrnacable.net
sent the email from a host named 24-216-30-23.hsacorp.net

>Received: from 24-216-30-23.hsacorp.net (HELO Smyrna361) (24.216.30.23) 
>by catvnet-115-84.catvnet.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 1999 22:49:39 -0000 

I can't do an nslookup on 24-216-30-23.hsacorp.net.  Your ISP must put it's
dialup IP addresses in a DNS table.  If they don't you'll have this problem.

I believe that is why GaTech's FTP is rejecting his connection via TCP
Wrapper's paranoid option.

My $.02,
Stan