Reverse Name Lookup (Secondary Server)

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed May 24 14:51:49 UTC 2000


In article <I%QW4.57$5k2.1092 at dfw-read.news.verio.net>,
Staalenburg, Juan <staalejg at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>Is it advisable to have a secondary server for reverse name lookup?  For

It's advisable to have secondary name servers for all domains.  Why should
reverse domains be any different?

>instance:  company.com & 1.16.172.in-addr.arpa are zones on a primary name
>server.  I have a secondary (slave) name server with the company.com zone
>defined, but should I also create a slave 1.16.172.in-addr.arpa zone?

Yes.

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