Actually I found the problem. It wasn't a dns lookup issue at
all, at least with the portmasters. It happened to be a coincidence
that the machines in question were running TCP mappers and the
DNS was not setup for the portmaster (i.e. IN-ADDR and A records).
The error message dispalyed by the portmaster was less than
helpful. If I had been able to tell that it was refusing
connections that would have been one thing.
An error message index indicating what the message means
would be helpful, or some way to get a diagnostic on the error.
>Run "show sessions" command. When run for the first time the output will
>contain symbolic names OR numeric addresses depending on how
>fast reverse DNS servers have reponded to PM's queries. On the second
>and subsequent times there will be only symbolic names (provided
>there's working reverse address mapping of course). Looks like
>late responses to the first query were cached and used later.
>
>I think a switch to disable symbolic names in output of some commands
>would be useful (like -n in pin, traceroute, netstat, etc).
>
>But ComOS command language lacks concept of switch or qualifier...
>
>--
>Igor V. Semenyuk Internet: iga@sovam.com
>SOVAM Teleport Phone: +7 095 258 4170
>Moscow, Russia Fax: +7 095 258 4133
>
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