reverse lookup issue

David George dgeorge at clearworks.net
Tue Jul 18 17:05:33 UTC 2000


Trying to get our Primary and secondary DNS for our domain configured and
set up so we can transition name services in house. So if you want to
nslookup against the machine you will have to do it by ip 63.214.252.197 .
Zone transfer seems to be working and normal name resolution seems to be
working fine however reverse lookup is giving me headaches. I've read the
error messages and I'm still unable to track this one down.

This is the error in /var/log/messages
Jul 19 06:54:04 nameserver1 named[1997]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN)
on na
meserver1.252.214.63.IN-ADDR.ARPA?

/var/named/63.214.252
[root at nameserver1 david]# more 63.214.252
63.214.252: No such file or directory
[root at nameserver1 david]# more /var/named/63.214.252
@               IN      SOA     nameserver1             smtp (
                        2000071911 ; serial
                        3600 ; refresh
                        900 ; retry
                        1209600 ; expire
                        43200 ; default_ttl
                        )
                IN      NS      nameserver1
197             IN      PTR     nameserver1.clearworks.net.
196             IN      PTR     clearworks.net.
                IN      NS      nameserver2
198             IN      PTR     nameserver2.clearworks.net.
193             IN      PTR     cisco7206.clearworks.net.
194             IN      PTR     foundry.clearworks.net.
195             IN      PTR     pmaccess1.clearworks.net.
196             IN      PTR     www.clearworks.net.
199             IN      PTR     smtp.clearworks.net.
200             IN      PTR     cache1.clearworks.net.

[root at nameserver1 david]# more /var/named/clearworks.net
@               IN      SOA     nameserver1     smtp (
                        2000071913 ; serial
                        3600 ; refresh
                        900 ; retry
                        1209600 ; expire
                        43200 ; default_ttl
                        )
                IN      MX      5       smtp
                IN      NS      nameserver1
                IN      NS      nameserver2
                        IN      A       63.214.252.197
                        IN      A       63.214.252.198
clearworks.net.         IN      A       63.214.252.196
nameserver1             IN      A       63.214.252.197
nameserver2             IN      A       63.214.252.198
cisco7206               IN      A       63.214.252.193
foundry                 IN      A       63.214.252.194
pmaccess1               IN      A       63.214.252.195
www                     IN      A       63.214.252.196
smtp                    IN      A       63.214.252.199
cache1                  IN      A       63.214.252.200
localhost               IN      A       127.0.0.1

[root at nameserver1 david]# more /etc/named.conf
options {
        directory "/var/named";
};
zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "root.cache";
};
zone "clearworks.net"{
        type master;
        file "clearworks.net";
        allow-transfer { 63.214.252.198; };
};
zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
        type master;
        file "127.0.0";
};
zone "252.214.63.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
        type master;
        file "63.214.252";
        allow-transfer { 63.214.252.198; };
};



Thanks so much,
David




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