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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:00

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In article <cKA35.445$ZW5.35549@news.uswest.net>,
TEC <tecsupport@uswest.net> wrote:
>This is what I am seeing on the server syslog.  Every half hour or so, I get
>two messages:
>
>smap[21550]: 205.240.25.2 host address lookup failed
>smap[21550]: connect host=unknown/205.240.25.2
>
>This is the Pond's (pond.net) IP address.  Apparently SMAP is trying to find
>out the domain name associated with the IP address, so it can determine if
>they are one of the sites that we don't want spamming us.  This
>inverse DNS lookup is failing.  I can test this inverse lookup with
>the nslookup program, which also fails for this address.  All other
>addresses I try are successful. Any idea what might be causing this?

Because the ixa.net servers that this reverse domain is delegated to aren't
responding to DNS queries (they respond to pings, though).

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Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Subject: Re: SMAP
Date: 2000/06/20
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