common problems

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37D6C5DA.F537E4E9 at gmx.li>, adrian  <adrian at gmx.li> wrote:
>hi,
>well,i did some research on deja.com and other web-resources (as well
>the "bind-book") but found nothing apropriate:
>the problem is occuring on rev/PTR queries:
>i did a dns setup serving a subnet from 10.2.16.1 to 10.2.31.254,
>everything worked fine except reverse lookup for other than 10.2.16.*
>i thought doing a rev zone as "b-classed" e.g. 2.10.in-addr* and adding
>the missing information in db.rev.domain ,eg. "2.2 A test.domain.net "
>might work but it isnt.

It should be OK to create the b-class reverse zone.  It looks like you're
putting the wrong stuff in it, though.  A reverse zone should contain PTR
records, not A records.  So for 10.2.17.25, the record should look like:

25.17  PTR  test.domain.net.

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