HP-OV and BIND

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running HP-Open View application over a HP K-260 whith HP-UX 11.0.
> I have BIND 8.3.1 running in this box like secondary DNS.
> 
> HP-OV is having problems whith the inverse resolution because it can't
> find out the name asociated to the ip address of the event that is
> received.
> 
> If I perform a nslookup <name> or nslookup <ip-address> the DNS works
> perfectly. But HP-OV doesn't work fine because it can resolve the name
> but it can't find out what name is associated to an ip address.
> 
> I only have this message in syslog.log file:
> 
> syslog: gethostbyaddr: name.domain. != 172.22.62.5
> 
> Does anybody know where is the problem ?

	Yes.  The forward and reverse data don't match.

	5.62.22.172.in-addr.arpa => name.domain
	name.domain  does not have a A record with 172.22.62.5
	Mark
 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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