bind 9.2.3 reverse lookup error

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Nov 2 21:19:02 UTC 2004


> In article <cm7oub$13og$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  Alvin Arcos <alvin_arcos at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi! I'm having a problem with our DNS reverse lookup query, whenever I used
>  
> > outside tool to reverse lookup, ie central.ops.net, I got this error: 
> >  
> > DNS query for 92.26.172.203.in-addr.arpa returned an error from the server:
>  
> > NameError
> >  
> > Though the server does'nt have any errors in /var/log/messages to figure it
>  
> > out.
> 
> The reverse domain 26.172.203.in-addr.arpa is delegated to 
> tayuman.info.com.ph and monumento.info.com.ph, and they don't have any 
> entry for 92.26.172.203.in-addr.arpa.
> 
> Unless you're operating one of those servers, your log file is 
> irrelevant.
> 
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


	"Name Error" (aka NXDOMAIN) is the "rcode" returned when the
	query name does not exist in the DNS.  Most of the RFC's refer
	to "Name Error" not NXDOMAIN.

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