Amusingly, my ISP claims that it's just "the nature of the beast", referring to NAT. They're blaming it on some new ADSL equipment from Cisco, which supposedly can't be configured such that reverse DNS lookups are supported. Call me skeptical, but... On the plus side, it looks like there are now at least two other options for broadband access in my area. Time to start looking into them, I suppose. On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:48:34PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Ok, I've confirmed that my problem really is a DNS issue. Guess it's > time to take it up with my ISP! > > Thanx for your help! > > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:55:49PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > I was suspicious that it was something like that... Any idea of a > > good/easy way to find out what my external IP address really is so > > I can verify this? I'm on a DSL connection with my ISP > > masquerading us all together, so I don't know what address the > > world at large sees. > > > > Thanx!
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