Reverse DNS Question

[Sumit Mehrotra]

This is just an addendum to Craig's Question.

 In the same setup, if such a scenario occurs : 

Within your domain ( i.e where you have your DNS running) you can do a dns lookup(forward and reverse) for the web site and it succeeds, BUT, if you do the same lookup from some other domain, using the default server , as the one you designated (as the primary for the website), it fails, with the following error :
(There is firewall acess to this NS, from outside)

*** otherdomain_nameserver.com can't find yahoo.com: No response from server

What could be the possible reason for this?

- Sumit


On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Wiffle Boy wrote:

> 
> I have a DNS setup for our domain and we are paying another company to
> host a web site for us.  We own the DNS, they just provide us an IP
> address for the www server.  We have put that into the zone file for
> the domain.  
> 
> My question, since the IP address of the www server is not on the same
> subnet as the DNS, do I need to setup the reverse dns zone file for
> it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
>