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20040814: request denials on atm.geo.nsf.gov

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  • Subject: 20040814: request denials on atm.geo.nsf.gov
  • Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:42:39 -0600
>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200408141648.i6MGmfaW028555 IDD DNS

Hi Dave,

We are seeing repeated gethostbyaddr failures for a machine with IP
address 166.66.44.84:

Aug 14 20:32:58 atm.geo.nsf.gov rpc.ldmd[22878]: gethostbyaddr: failed for 
166.66.44.84
Aug 14 20:32:58 atm.geo.nsf.gov rpc.ldmd[22878]: Denying connection from 
166.66.44.84

'awhois' shows that this machine is at Millersville University:

% awhois 166.66.44.84

OrgName:    Millersville University 
OrgID:      MILLER-1
Address:    P.O. Box 1002
City:       Millersville
StateProv:  PA
PostalCode: 17551
Country:    US

NetRange:   166.66.0.0 - 166.66.255.255 
CIDR:       166.66.0.0/16 
NetName:    CAMPUSWIDE
NetHandle:  NET-166-66-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-166-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Assignment
NameServer: MILLERSV.EDU
NameServer: DAFFY.MILLERSV.EDU
Comment:    
RegDate:    1993-10-22
Updated:    1994-11-22

TechHandle: REF10-ARIN
TechName:   Fritz, Richard E.
TechPhone:  +1-717-872-3341
TechEmail:  address@hidden 

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-08-12 20:10
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Can you contact your network folks to get full forward/reverse name
lookup setup for this machine, or, alternatively, turn off the
request for data from atm?  Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Tom
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>From address@hidden  Mon Aug 16 08:04:21 2004

I'll see what I can do to fix this.

Dave