reverse lookup not working

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3a597dad_1 at news.pacifier.com>,
Manitee  <manitee at shell.pacifier.com> wrote:
>I am a beginner with DNS...
>
>I have two servers. One is running as a name server.
>
>After logging into the shell of my ISP I ran
>
>nslookup IPaddresshost1
>
>it returned the IP address of host1.
>
>nslookup IPaddresshost2
>
>can't find IP address: Non-existent host/domain
>
>It works from within the network but outside of the network,
>from my ISP, it fails every time.
>
>Could someone suggest what is wrong in the way I have configured
>the name server and how I could fix it? Thanks.

Sounds like the reverse domain of Ipaddresshost2 isn't delegated to your
server.  Since you didn't tell us what the IP addresses are, it's difficult
to be sure.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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