RFC 2317 reverse DNS - have I done it right?

Peter Campion-Bye peter at pandasys.co.uk
Fri Feb 13 08:19:33 UTC 2004


Barry Margolin wrote:
>
> Looks like dnsstuff.com doesn't understand RFC 2317.  It's probably
> performing an ANY query instead of a PTR query.  Or it's querying the
> parent domain server with Recursion Desired disabled; it expects to get
> either a PTR record or a referral, but it's getting a CNAME record
> instead.
>
> I suggest you complain to the maintainer of dnsstuff.com.  Your BIND
> configuration looks fine to me.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA

Thanks Barry and others, I'll follow this up with the maintainer of
dnsstuff.com, I kind of assumed he would be here on this group.
Does anyone else here have RFC 2317 delegation set up and get the same
result from DNSStuff?



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