reverse domain refuses to work

[Joseph Shraibman]

Thanks for the info.  I wish the bind error messages were more informative.

Anyway my zone file now looks like this, but still doesn't work:

$ORIGIN 192/27.233.107.199.in-addr.arpa.
@       IN      SOA     ultraoptions.com. root.ultraoptions.com. (
                                 2002062502       ; Serial
                                 8H      ; Refresh
                                 2H      ; Retry
                                 1W      ; Expire
                                 1D)     ; Minimum TTL
                 NS      ultraoptions.com.
                 NS      190.230.15.64.in-addr.arpa.
;               MX      10      mail.selectacast.net.

;222             PTR     ultraoptions.com.
195             PTR     p1.selectacast.net.
196             PTR     xis.xtenit.com.
197             PTR     apps.xtenit.com.
205             PTR     intellimail.yellowbrix.com.
198             PTR     p2.selectacast.net.

I made xis an A instead of a CNAME and took out ultraoptions.com because it isn't actually 
at that ip address right now, but it still isn't working and bind won't give me meaningful 
error messages.

BTW what is this h2n program you are using?  I found a different h2n but it doesn't appear 
to be the same thing.

Andris Kalnozols wrote:
>>Joseph Shraibman <jks at xtenit.com> wrote:
>>
>>I'm using bind 8.2.4 on Solaris.
>>
>>My zone file is:
>>$ORIGIN 192/27.233.107.199.in-addr.arpa.
>>@       IN      SOA     ultraoptions.com. root.ultraoptions.com. (
>>                                2002062301       ; Serial
>>                                8H      ; Refresh
>>                                2H      ; Retry
>>                                1W      ; Expire
>>                                1D)     ; Minimum TTL
>>                NS      ultraoptions.com.
>>;               NS      190.230.15.64.in-addr.arpa.
>>;               MX      10      mail.selectacast.net.
>> 
>>222             PTR     www.ultraoptions.com.
>>222             PTR     ultraoptions.com.
>>195             PTR     p1.selectacast.net.
>>196             PTR     xis.xtenit.com.
>>197             PTR     apps.xtenit.com.
>>205             PTR     intellimail.xtenit.com.
>>198             PTR     p2.selectacast.net.
>>
>>When I try to do a reverse lookup:
>>
>>>nslookup 199.107.233.196
>>
>>Server:  localhost
>>Address:  127.0.0.1
>> 
>>192/27.233.107.199.in-addr.arpa
>>        origin = ultraoptions.com
>>        mail addr = root.ultraoptions.com
>>        serial = 2002062301
>>        refresh = 28800 (8H)
>>        retry   = 7200 (2H)
>>        expire  = 604800 (1W)
>>        minimum ttl = 86400 (1D)
>>*** No address (A) records available for 199.107.233.196
>>
>>Why is this happening?  I'm servering other reverse domains from this 
>>same nameserver without problems.
> 
> 
> This and one other PTR record point to domain names which are CNAMEs.
> Per RFC-1035, PTR records should point to canonical names.
> 
> h2n -V 192/27.233.107.199.in-addr.arpa
> 
> Verifying zone data for domain `192/27.233.107.199.in-addr.arpa.':
> Getting NS RRset...
> Transferring zone... (from `ultraoptions.com' [64.15.230.190])
> Parsing zone data... (NS BIND version: 8.2.4-REL)
> Performing in-zone and external lookups...
> (processing 8 queries for out-of-zone domains)
> 
> Warning: found PTR RR(s) pointing to the following problematic domain name(s):
>  xis.xtenit.com.                        [CNAME record]
>  www.ultraoptions.com.                  [CNAME record]
> Warning: found zone(s) not having at least two listed name servers (RFC-1034):
>  @                      86400   IN NS   ultraoptions.com.
> 
> Replace `xis.xtenit.com' with 'xtenit.com' and `www.ultraoptions.com'
> with `ultraoptions.com'.  There's a similar problem in the forward-mapping
> zone:
> 
> h2n -V ultraoptions.com
> 
> Verifying zone data for domain `ultraoptions.com.':
> Getting NS RRset...
> Transferring zone... (from `ultraoptions.com' [64.15.230.190])
> Parsing zone data... (NS BIND version: 8.2.4-REL)
> Performing in-zone and external lookups...
> (processing 1 queries for out-of-zone domains)
> 
> Warning: found MX RR(s) pointing to the following problematic domain name(s):
>  mail.selectacast.net.                  [CNAME record]
> Warning: found zone(s) not having at least two listed name servers (RFC-1034):
>  @                      86400   IN NS   ultraoptions.com.
> 
> Replace `mail.selectacast.net' with `p1.selectacast.net' to fix this.
> 
> 
> Andy


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Joseph Shraibman
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