Reverse Lookup Bind 9

[Ruben I Safir - Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO]

> OTOH, you should consider using a different tool. Dig is a much better
> choice.
It does seem to work for Dig, but I thought a PTR exists for 
db.216.112.229 file which is the reverse lookup file for the 216.112.229
subnet for this LAN.

$TTL 86400;
@      IN      SOA     mail.rm-cpa.com. root.rm-cpa.com.  (
                5       ;Serial
                43200   ;Refresh in 12 Hours
                3600    ; Retry in One Hour
                2419200 ; Expire in 28 days
                86400 ) ; TTL

$ORIGIN 229.112.216.in-addr.arpa

        IN      NS      mail.rm-cpa.com.

114     IN      PTR     mail.rm-cpa.com.


> 
> hudson doesn't seem to think it's hosting 168.192.in-addr.arpa.

That would be correct.  I don't even know why it's asking hudson which is not
on the lan and is only a backup server in etc/resolv.conf

It won't find the darn manedb running locally.


> Is there
> a zone {} clause in the named.conf telling it to load
> 168.192.in-addr.arpa? At the moment it thinks blackhole.isi.edu it the
> master nameserver.

mail.rm-cpa.com should be master for the LAN
I think it clearly has a zone for 192.168.0

When outlook tried to send mail from one of the stations1 on the lan,
it came back with a message, no delivery something or other for that address.
Since linux boxes on the Lan can negotiate without a problem, it figured 
this might all be related.


It's named.conf is as follows:

options {
        directory "/usr/local/namedb";
        pid-file "named.pid";
        allow-query{ any; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
        type master;
        file "localhost.rev";
};


zone "rm-cpa.com" in {
        type master;
file "rm-cpa.com.db";
allow-transfer{
        192.168.0.110;
        216.112.229.114;
        206.6.250.3;
        206.6.250.4;
        };
};
zone "229.112.216.in-addr.arpa" in{
        type master;
        file "db.216.112.229";
};

zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in{
        type master;
        file "db.192.168.0";
};

zone "." {
        type hint;
file "root.hint";
};

> 
> james
> -- 
> James Raftery (JBR54)
>   "Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
>    herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on dns at list.cr.yp.to.
> 

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