At 01:29 PM 3/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
You always connect to a machine with and IP address, DNS just allows you to use hostnames, but the connection is always made via TCP/IP from IP address to IP address. Machines that are connected to like to do DNS lookups on the IP address connection, it easy reporting and can be used to verify that the person connection is not spoofing, etc.
Okay, ignore my last post; I stand corrected. I remember now, I always reverse DNS set up for the IP#s first, not for the machine in question, but for a generic domain name entry.
Mea Culpa. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>