Re: [Sks-devel] odd SKS recon issues (rDNS issues?)

[Yaron Minsky]

SKS does not do reverse lookups.  It just compares the IP addresses
returned by DNS to the connecting IP.

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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:39:43 +0200, Olaf Gellert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dan Egli wrote:
> > I was browsing my logs today, and notied it saying that unauthorised
> > hosts were reconing with me. I thought that weird. So I looked them up.
> > Wait a minute. These "unauthorised" hosts ARE in my membership file!
> 
> Well, that depends. I do not know how SKS compares the
> hosts: Eiter it compares the IP-addresses (which would
> by equal for the different host-names) or it does a
> reverse lookup for the DNS-name of the IP-address.
> Then you would notice the difference eg between
> pyxis.cns.ualberta.ca and pgp.cns.ualberta.ca...
> 
> Just a guess...
> 
> Olaf
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