Help - Problem Propagating Reverse Zone
Pete Ehlke
pde at ehlke.net
Sat Dec 21 17:57:51 UTC 2002
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 04:56:56PM -0000, Adam Retter wrote:
> Hi Guys - Need some help please if possible,
>
> I seem to have a bit of a problem with propagating my reverse dns zone.
>
> My Reverse zone is 62.152.213.in-addr.arpa and covers the address block
> 213.152.62.0/24, my name servers are ns1.cosmic.org.uk and ns2.cosmic.org.uk
>
> My named.conf has the following entry -
>
> zone "62.152.213.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> type master;
> file "62.152.213.in-addr.arpa";
> notify yes;
> zone-statistics yes;
> };
>
> Now what I dont understand is that if I do a reverse name lookup against my
> servers e.g. nslookup 213.152.62.12 then I get a result in this case
> 'pulsar.cosmic.org.uk' however if I try doing a reverse lookup against any
> one else's dns servers on the Internet then I get no result. It would seem
> that my reverse zone is not propagating across the Internet.
>
> Can anyone explain to my why this is and why reverse lookups arent working
> for us and perhaps even suggest a solution?
>
That zone is not delegated to your servers:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> 62.152.213.in-addr.arpa ns
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22602
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;62.152.213.in-addr.arpa. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
62.152.213.in-addr.arpa. 86314 IN NS dns1.eclipse.net.uk.
62.152.213.in-addr.arpa. 86314 IN NS dns2.as12513.net.
62.152.213.in-addr.arpa. 86314 IN NS dns1.as12513.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns1.eclipse.net.uk. 86314 IN A 212.104.129.11
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 64.81.113.233#53(64.81.113.233)
;; WHEN: Sat Dec 21 11:56:56 2002
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 139
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