Reverse problem

[Cricket Liu]

> I have installed Bind 8.2.5 under Windows NT. I have configured it. It
works
> to resolve names. But when I launch "nslookup 192.1.2.7" to get reverse
> resolution, the answer is "poste.domain.2.1.192.in-addr.arpa". How to get
> the answer "poste.domain" ? Do I have problem in configuration ?

Yes, you probably have a PTR record in the zone that's missing the trailing
dot at the end of the RDATA, e.g.,

7.2.1.192.in-addr.arpa.    IN    PTR    poste.domain

cricket

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