BIND 9 needs both forward and reverse

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Tue Feb 6 16:36:01 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Bodley <Bodley at tflogic.com> writes:

    Charles> Does this mean that without a reverse lookup anyone
    Charles> running bind 9 can't see my sites?  Or is this if 'i'm'
    Charles> running bind 9 it will not work?

No. The initial problem report was misguided. Name servers don't care
if reverse lookups work or not. [Why should they care?] The problem
that was reported seems to be caused by something else which was
mistakenly attributed to a reverse lookup failure. The problem appears
to be caused by NS records with a 0 second TTL and it just happened
that the servers presenting these NS records didn't have working
reverse lookups.


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