[ale] Ga Tech's FTP server status

[Ryan Bridges]

Another nifty little secret is that <yourusername>.users.mindspring.com
will also resolve.  when i'm dialed in, ryanbridges.users.mindspring.com
will resolve.

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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu wrote:

> 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
>