From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain beacon.ie)
Date: Wed 28 Apr 1999 - 13:40:06 IST
Kenn Humborg wrote:
>
> Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> >
> > If not, RH5.{0|1|2} defaults to doing a reverse lookup on connecting
> > machines,
> > and the prompt will only appear after the lookup fails. However, it's
> > odd that the ping resolve works both ways :-/
>
> ping never does a reverse lookup.
>
> Kenn
Yeah, but ping works *both* ways, which means that B can resolve A
happily enough when it's pinging, but can't resolve it when A is
trying to connect to B and B's trying to lookup the connecting
machine. Most odd.
Vin
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