Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.

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From: Warner Losh
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 16:39

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In article <1992Aug04.030626.18301@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>
kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ)) writes:
>That's right... *IF* I expect people to be able to address my machine as
>"pleasure.com". If I don't, I can call it whatever I want to.

By placing a reverse lookup for your IP address in the DNS pointing to
pleasure.COM, you *ARE* expecting people to address it as
pleasure.com, whether you realize it or not.  That is why many ftp
sites require a reverse lookup for the IP address, so they know where
the connections are coming from if something goes wrong.  By violating
the rules of how the DNS works, you have placed yourself in the wrong.
No amount of side-tracking or red herrings is going to change that.

Warner
-- 
Warner Losh		imp@Solbourne.COM
imp@Solbourne.COM: "I should be OK, I'm basically doing the speed limit"
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From: imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
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Organization: Solbourne, User Interface Group
References: <1992Jul29.215824.16932@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>> <1992Aug3.024429.16013@melba.bby.oz.au> <1992Aug04.030626.18301@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>
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