DNS with classeless IP address in FC3

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Dec 8 09:55:50 UTC 2004


Sid RAMDANE wrote:
> I have registered a domain, lets say called *fedora.com, relayed by 
> registrar who is not my ISP.
> Ftp, SMTP, www, pop3, etc are pointed to lets say a fixed IP address 
> 10.10.10.10/32 (IP address I am getting from my ISP).
> 
> The command host, dig, nslookup all show that everything is correctly 
> configured.
> I have configured an internal DNS as catching only using the dns I have 
> been given by my registrar and using as well DNS of my ISP.
> 
> However all incoming traffic, ftp and www seems to end up somewhere in 
> my ISP network. It never reaches my IP address 10.10.10.10/32
> 
> When the command nslookup is executed on my address 10.10.10.10, I got 
> answer that it is for my ISP and not for my domain *fedora.com.
> 
> I am using Fedora C3 and I believe everything works ok. From my network 
> I can have access to my ftp server, my web server and can send e-mail as 
> well and receive e-mail as well from my pop ISP account. However ftp and 
> www from outside doe not work.
> 
> Is there anyway to by pass this issue? Do you think it caused by the 
> fact that there is no reverse resolution for my IP 10.10.10.10/32?
> 
> Any type/help will be welcomed!

This could be a DNS or a firewall issue. However, it will be *much* easier to 
figure out what is going on (and debug) if you specify the actual domain names 
and IP addresses rather than substituting ones.

Paul.




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