reverse lookups are wrong

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	The steps to recursively resolve any domainname are well
	known.  Perform the process manually working down from the
	root servers.

	This is the best advice anyone can give if you hide the
	domainnames and IP addresses involved.

	Mark
> 
> Is there anything I can do to promote proper reverse lookups on a
> domain I administer? Even though there are no references anywhere in
> my dns files to:
> 
> foo.mydomain.com anymore, 
> 
> having long changed to 
> 
> bar.mydomain.com
> 
> it seems like everyone on the planet is still getting the foo machine
> name when they look up the IP. Generally this is no big deal, but it
> is quite annoying, particularly when receiving security information or
> when the reverse lookup is critical to some network service. These
> machine changes were made many months ago.
> 
> The primary dns server is running the latest bind 8 on FreeBSD.
> Thanks!
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com