Reverse DNS Question

[Kevin Darcy]

Sounds like you do *not*, in fact, have proper access to the internal NS through the firewall. What are the firewall's rules pertaining to port 53?

                                                                                                                                                        - Kevin

Sumit Mehrotra wrote:

> 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?