Reverse setup

[Troy Davis]

Hello everyone,

I'm a new DNS admin for my company (first in my company as well), and I've now
read the majority of the O'Reilly DNS/Bind book, which has been very
helpful.

My service provider has already delegated my IP block's reverse lookup
authority to my servers, but I'm having difficulty setting up the
proper zone files and would love some pointers.

Here's the relevant excerpt from /etc/named.conf that relates to the
reverse zone:

---
zone "128-255.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa" {
         type master;
         file "/var/named/168.215.196.128-255.rev";
         also-notify {
                 209.50.121.83;
                 };
         allow-transfer {
                 209.50.121.83;
                 207.250.222.10;
                 168.215.196.133;
                 };
         notify yes;
         };
---

Here's the file /var/named/168.215.196.128-255.rev:

---
$ttl 2D
128-255.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.       IN      SOA
morrigan.slipstream.com. hostmaster.slipstream.com. (
                         2001071602
                         2D
                         30
                         7D
                         2D )
128-255.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.       IN      NS     morrigan.slipstream.com.
132.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     morrigan.slipstream.com.
133.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     hermes.slipstream.com.
149.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     orangebarrel.slipstream.com.
152.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     certificate.com.
150.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     financial.slipstream.com.
155.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     slipstream.com.
158.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     srfsup.com.
156.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     webstoreexpress.com.
151.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     yourpitch.com.
146.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     corknbottle.com.
148.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     mbgpartners.com.
153.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     sistersofstjoseph.org.
157.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     prejean.org.
145.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     soundthetrumpets.org.
160.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     world-song.org.
144.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     cincydental.org.
143.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR     glyss.com.
128-255.196.215.168.in-addr.arpa.       IN      NS
hermes.slipstream.com.

---

There's some unintended line breaks inserted in here by my email 
client, I'm sure. The lines are not broken in this manner in the zone
files.

Currently, forward lookups against my servers work, but reverses do
not.

I'm also wondering if I need to setup a zone file for 168.215.196.rev
so that local network lookups will work?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,
Troy Davis

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Troy Davis
ACD Interactive
Slipstream.com
205 W. 4th St. #1130
Cincinnati, OH 45202
USA
Tel - 513.241.4444 x119
Fax - 513.241.1107