Reverse lookup problems

[Michael Kjorling]

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You are missing the period after the FQDN for the NS RR in the
61.225.130.in-addr.arpa zone. Add one and that should solve that
problem.

However, you should be aware that auaw.aua.auc.dk (which your ISP has
delegated 61.225.130.in-addr.arpa to) is lame.


Michael Kjörling


On Aug 9 2001 16:01 +0200, Simon Fristed Eskildsen wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have BIND 9.1.1 running under Solaris and are experiencing problems
> with the reverse lookup of one of the zones, that the server is
> authoritative for. Normal host lookup works fine, and reverse lookup
> works on the local server, but when using a remote DNS server the
> reverse lookup doesn't work (Perhaps a zone transfer problem?). Using
> nslookup I get the following:
> ---
> root at i4:/# nslookup -q=ns 61.225.130.in-addr.arpa
> Server:  i4.auc.dk
> Address:  130.225.61.5
>
> 61.225.130.in-addr.arpa nameserver = i4.auc.dk.61.225.130.in-addr.arpa
> ---
> It seems that some kind of "$ORIGIN" is being appended at the wrong
> place. The other zones, that the server is authoritative for, are
> working fine:
> ---
> root at i4:/# nslookup -q=ns 61.168.192.in-addr.arpa
> Server:  i4.auc.dk
> Address:  130.225.61.5
>
> 61.168.192.in-addr.arpa nameserver = i4.auc.dk
> i4.auc.dk       internet address = 130.225.61.5
> ---
> Here are the head of the reverse data files:
> ---
> $TTL 86400
> //$ORIGIN 61.225.130.in-addr.arpa.
> @  IN SOA i4.auc.dk. postmaster.i4.auc.dk. (
>    2001080903 ; Serial
>                         3600         ; Refresh
>                         600     ; Retry
>                         1209600 ; Expire
>                         3600 ) ; Minimum TTL
>    IN NS  i4.auc.dk
>
> 5         IN     PTR i4.auc.dk.
> 1         IN     PTR i4-gw.i4.auc.dk.
> 2         IN     PTR gw1-f11-112.i4.auc.dk.
> 4         IN     PTR thor.i4.auc.dk.
> ---
> $TTL 86400
> //$ORIGIN 61.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
> @  IN SOA i4.auc.dk. postmaster.i4.auc.dk. (
>    2001080901 ; Serial
>                         3600         ; Refresh
>                         600     ; Retry
>                         1209600 ; Expire
>                         3600 ) ; Minimum TTL
>    IN NS  i4.auc.dk.
>
> 2         IN     PTR panago.i4.auc.dk.
> 3         IN     PTR g191-am.i4.auc.dk.
> 4         IN     PTR g198-gm.i4.auc.dk.
> 5         IN     PTR i4-lab.i4.auc.dk.
> ---
> As seen from the files, I have comment out the $ORIGIN (and restarted
> with a 'kill -HUP <pid>'), but without effect.
> I hope somebody have suggestions to what's wrong, because I'm confused.
>
> /Simon

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