Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:52:00PM -0400, Vivien M. wrote:

but...). Now, if 1.2.3.4 has proper matching forward/reverse DNS lookups, I don't see how people behind someone else's NAT pose a problem.

Remember, we're talking about matching hostnames to reverse lookups. Assuming you're using NAPT (a specific subset of NAT that seems to be what we're talking about here), this won't match up unless all your boxes have the same hostname.