SERVFAIL

[Kevin Darcy]

No, you have not set that up. GTEI responds with a reverse record for
4.34.235.184 which is from the 23.4.in-addr.arpa zone. Are you GTEI? Even if
you are, notice that you are responding from the *parent* zone of
235.23.4.in-addr.arpa, not 235.23.4.in-addr.arpa itself. No delegation exists
for 235.23.4.in-addr.arpa; not to your box or any other.

Read Mark's comments again. Fix the problems. Then talk to your upstream
ISP about getting a proper delegation. Just saying "I set that up" isn't very
convincing. Or productive.


- Kevin

John Cantu wrote:

> Right, but I set that up and I still get SERVFAIL.
>
> On Monday 28 May 2001 21:19, you wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I get this error when trying to do a "nslookup 4.34.235.184 127.0.0.1"
> > > "server can't find 184.235.34.4.in-addr.arpa: SERVFAIL"
> > > My config files follow.
> > > John Cantu
> > >
> > > --------named.conf--------
> > >
> > > zone "." {
> > >         type hint;
> > >         file "root.hints";
> > > };
> > >
> > > zone "235.34.4.in-addr.arpa" {
> > >     type master;
> > >     file "myip.dbf";
> > > };
> > >
> > > --------myip.dbf--------
> > >
> > > @   IN      SOA     jeian.mydomain.com. jeian.mydomain.com. (
> > >                     2001052601 ; serial number
> > >                     43200 ; refresh 2x per day
> > >                     7200 ; retry every 2 hour
> > >                     2592000 ; expire after 1 month
> > >                     86400 ; TTL is 24 hours
> > > mydomain.com.  IN      NS      jeian.mydomain.com.
> > > 184     IN      PTR     jeian.mydomain.com.
> > > jeian.mydomain.com.   IN      A       4.34.235.184
> >
> >       As always check your error logs.  In this case you didn't
> >       close the opening bracket in the SOA record.  You also have
> >       no NS records for 235.34.4.in-addr.arpa.
> >
> >       You also have records that belong in your forward zone in
> >       your reverse zone's master file.
> >
> >       Also if you don't have the full /24 you should not be declaring
> >       yourself master for 235.34.4.in-addr.arpa.  You should be talking
> >       to your ISP for how to do your reverse mappings.
> >
> >       Mark
> >
> > myip.dbf:
> > $TTL  86400
> > @   IN      SOA     jeian.mydomain.com. jeian.mydomain.com. (
> >                       2001052601 ; serial number
> >                       43200 ; refresh 2x per day
> >                       7200 ; retry every 2 hour
> >                       2592000 ; expire after 1 month
> >                       86400 ) ; TTL is 24 hours
> > @  IN      NS      jeian.mydomain.com.
> > 184     IN      PTR     jeian.mydomain.com.
> >
> > mydomain.dbf:
> > $TTL  86400
> > @   IN      SOA     jeian.mydomain.com. jeian.mydomain.com. (
> >                       2001052601 ; serial number
> >                       43200 ; refresh 2x per day
> >                       7200 ; retry every 2 hour
> >                       2592000 ; expire after 1 month
> >                       86400 ) ; TTL is 24 hours
> > @  IN      NS      jeian.mydomain.com.
> > jeian   IN      A       4.34.235.184
> >
> > --
> > Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
> > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com