Reverse DNS on Home Network?

[Kevin Darcy]

Kevin Darcy wrote:

>Andrew wrote:
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>>I have a caching DNS server setup on my Linux box at 192.168.1.5
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>>I have a Win 2K box on this network and it doesn't seem to want
>>to use this DNS server to lookup information.
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>>When I try to use nslookup on the Win 2K machine it says:
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>>"Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.5: Server Failed"
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>Just because nslookup is stupid about this, doesn't mean regular lookups 
>(e.g. those generated by a browser while surfing) fail, does it? If 
>regular lookups are failing as well, it's probably due to some separate 
>problem.
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>>I'm guessing this is a reverse DNS issue but I'm not sure.
>>I know that the DNS server is running, however.
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>>Is it possible to configure a reverse DNS entry for an "inside" IP address?
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>>If so, can anyone provide an example?
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>(named.conf excerpt)
>zone "168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
>type master;
>file "168.192.in-addr.arpa";
>};
>
>(file: 168.192.in-addr.arpa)
>$TTL 1D
>@ IN SOA doesnt.really.matter.com. root.doesnt.really.matter.com. (
>1 86400 3600 3600000 3600 )
>IN NS doesnt.really.matter.com.
>5.1 IN PTR whatever.example.com.
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>- Kevin
>
Oops, that got munged by my mail client. The continuation line of the 
SOA RR, and the NS line, both need whitespace in front of them...

- Kevin