Persistent inverse query

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7q1o39$g1v$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <mikewise99 at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Can anybody tell me what these reverse lookups are all about? Would it
>help if I put added a 255.255.255.255.in-addr-arpa file to my config?
>And what would go in such a beast?

As another poster said, it's not clear why someone on your network is
trying to look this up.  But it certainly couldn't hurt.  I'd put in it:

@ IN SOA ns.yourdomain.com.  hostmaster.yourdomain.com. (
        <usual SOA parameters> )
  IN NS  ns.yourdomain.com.
  IN PTR broadcast.yourdomain.com.

For consistency, add

broadcast  IN A  255.255.255.255

to the zone file for yourdomain.com.

Replace "yourdomain.com" with your domain in all the above.

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