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CurtisBilly

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So I'm using my computer tonight when the dreaded your IP address has a conflict with another computer......so my IP address is stolen...DAMN......finally get AT&T to issue me a new static IP address since their local DHCP server has NEVER worked for crap........so my new IP address works fine for all things except checking my university's email through telnet. When I try to telnet students.uiuc.edu I get this error:


"Your machine is not allowed to connect to this host due to
your host not being properly registered in the DNS.

A possible source of this problem may be a faulty entry in the
domain name services (DNS) entry for your host. This server does
NOT accept connections from improperly registered hosts. Consult
your network administrator to get your faulty entry fixed.

Any host that tries to connect to this server must have both a
forward and reverse DNS entry. This means we must be able to lookup
both your hostname *and* IP address.

This indicates a problem with the DNS at YOUR end. There is nothing
the UIUC administrators can do to fix this problem. Consult
your local network administrator to get your faulty entry fixed."


This problem is specific to this new IP address only as my roommates IP address works flawlessly on both his and my computer.....this sure is a bummer.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

 
AT&T probably doesn`t have there reverse DNS setup right. I mean, what do you expect if you get your IP stolen.

There network admins are smoking up in the back room.


In other words, your school is right.
 
Telnet / ssh to a different host. Perhaps you have a friend with a box somewhere who could give you a shell account. From there, telnet to the university.

You get what you pay for with cheap cable. I'm paying $100/mo for my DSL and I was actualy able to have my ISP change my reverse DNS to the domain name I have registered. Now all the llamas on IRC think I work for an ISP. 🙂

~bex0rs
 
You can call tech support and report it, but I really doubt it will get you anywhere. No tech you can speak with has anything to do with the DNS servers. It's nearly impossible to get enough information together to escalate this kind of a tech issue.

Your only other option is another IP. You can call up and try to get one, or you can just wait since with the national reorganization going on many, many sets of ip's, subnets, dns servers, gateways, etc are being changed in the next month to 2 months. Your odds are about 50-50 of getting a new IP that way.

Good luck.

tier 2 tech
 
Sounds like it's a DNS configuration problem on your computer. Look in your tcp/ip DNS settings and see if there is a setting like "register this connections's address in DNS" - if so, enable it.
 
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