ReverseLookup does'nt work!!!

[Kevin Darcy]

"\"V.N.SEKHAR\"" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am installing BIND 8.3 on Solaris 2.6 Box.Now the forward lookup is
> working fine i.e i am able to resolve all the records using nslookup But
> nslookup gives the "error message can not find the server name for the IP
> address,Server failed".But with the old DNS version reverse lookup works
> fine.
>
> My named.conf file looks like this.
>
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
> };
>
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.root.8.3.1";
> };
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "named.local";
> };
> zone "domain.com" {
>         type master;
>         file "domain.zone";
>         notify yes;
>         allow-transfer {Sec DNS server IP; };
> };
>
> And my named.local file is
>
> @       IN      SOA             Host.domainname.  root.host.domainname. (
>                 99013103        ;Serial no. -  mmyy.ddnn, nn=ver no
>                 10800           ;Refresh
>                 3600            ;Retry
>                 604800          ;Expire
>                 86400 )         ;Minimum
>
>         IN      NS      DNS server host name.
> 1       IN      PTR     localhost.
>
> Whether any body can help me why it does'nt work with the new version but
> working with the old version.

Look in your logs for errors at the time named tried to load the relevant
zone file. Solaris' syslog doesn't capture much of the "daemon" facility by
default, so you might need to customize that slightly to see the relevant
messages.


- Kevin