BIND 9 needs both forward and reverse

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	Whatever the real cause of your problem is, this isn't it.

	Perhaps if you tell us which servers and queries you are
	having problems with we may be able to tell you what is
	wrong.

	Mark

> 
> FYI.
> 
> It seems that BIND 9.x will not query nameservers that don't have forward
> AND reverse lookup entries for the host machine.
> 
> BIND 9 will check for both before querying and if both are not found then
> the query will not take place.
> 
> We had problems after upgrading with customers not being able to reach
> domains hosted on nameservers without a successful reverse, BIND 8 didn't
> seem to care.
> 
> Anyone else come across this?
> 
> Andy Francis
> 
> 
> 
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