DNS trouble

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37f23f87 at news.vo.lu>, jmr <jmroth at luxcom.net> wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>I setup a name server on a linux box.
>When I nslookup in from an NT workstation it says the following:
>
>C:\>nslookup
>Default Server:  cents.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
>Address:  192.168.1.99
>
>the second line of the above paragraph bothers me
>it should be cents.ourcompany.com
>
>Any idea where the mistake could be?

In your reverse zone file.  You wrote:

99 PTR cents

instead of:

99 PTR cents.ourcompany.com.

Since "cents" doesn't have a dot at the end, the zone name is appended.

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