reverse look-up oddity

[Cricket Liu]

> I recently started a new job, and have been given the task of
> cleaning-up DNS. Currently reverse look-ups are returning this for the
> server info:
> 
> Server:  host.IN-ADDR.ARPA
> 
> And all of the PTR records in the domain.rev file are suffixed with
> .IN-ADDR.ARPA instead of the domain name.  I cannot find anything in
> the new O'Reilly book, in the archives for this newsgroup or in the
> DNS FAQ on the web that address this (sorry for the pun!).
> 
> The only thing that stands out is that the hostname for the box is not
> fully qualified, but would that be referenced on a reverse look-up?

Sigh.  Chapter 14, problem 6.  And you need to add the
domain name after "host."

cricket