[ale] DirecTV DSL - No Reverse DNS

[Ben Alexander]

Here's the thing.  A family member's IP is 65.185.226.225.  They've had
the DSL since Telocity, and they reverse lookup works on that ip.  I
signed up after DirecTV DSL took over, and am in a different area of
town, and my ip is 65.188.230.65.  Doing a reverse lookup doesn't even
time out here, just says none.  I'm going to talk to Customer Support
again on Monday and make sure we are on same page.

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul D. Manno [mailto:paul at dblegl.atl.ga.us] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:53 AM
To: Ben Alexander
Cc: 'Ale (E-mail)'
Subject: Re: [ale] DirecTV DSL - No Reverse DNS


On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, 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
> 

I checked my connection about a minute ago and the Telocity/DirectTV DSL

connection has a valid DNS reverse map just as it always has.  Unless a 
major change in their policy has just transpired, they've been one of
the 
few companies that support Linux and don't mind if you run servers on
your 
connection.  They don't provide you assistance for your services
including 
reverse DNS for NAT, VPN, etc. addresses.

I can't help but wonder if there's a confusion here...

-- Paul


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