Interpreting a DNS report

[Sten Carlsen]

Tom Gill wrote:

>I am with a small ISP in Orlando, Florida.  Some of our users are
>having problems sending email to others and are receiving returned
>messages that say our email server has no reverse lookup.
>
>When I go to www.dnsstuff.com and use the reverse lookup utility on
>our mail server's IP (216.54.161.51), it comes back just fine
>(sun-msg-1.orlandotelco.net).
>
>However, when I go to www.dnsreport.com and do a reverse on the
>161.54.216.in-addr.arpa zone, I fail some of the tests:
>
>It says we have lame nameservers, and missing (stealth) nameservers. 
>Can anyone help interpret these in English?  The results of the
>dnsreport can be found here:
>
>http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=161.54.216.in-addr.arpa
>
>Thanks for your time,
>Tom
>
>  
>
I tried both forward and reverse lookup from here, forward is fine. 
Reverse don't return any answer for me, so your client could be right.

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Sten Carlsen

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