ReverseLookup does'nt work!!!

[Sekhar]

Hi,

Thanks for the mail and when i do the dig <domain name> ptr and give our
server IP address i am getting the following error messages.

; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> 164.164.4.5 ptr
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 1
;; QUESTIONS:
;;      164.164.4.5, type = PTR, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
.       86400   SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.  NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. (
                        2002121100      ;serial
                        1800    ;refresh
                        900     ;retry
                        604800  ;expire
                        86400 ) ;minim


;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
.       0       41      ???


;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 891 msec
;; FROM: stpb.soft.net to SERVER: default -- 164.164.4.5
;; WHEN: Wed Dec 11 16:55:03 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 29  rcvd: 115

and the log says:
Dec 11 16:54:13 stpb.soft.net named[10877]: master zone
"164.164.in-addr.arpa" (
IN) rejected due to errors (serial 3851322646)

But iam sure the we have necessary reverse delegation happenend since if i
go back to the old BIND version.

Any help please???

Regards,

V.N.SEKHAR


-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:49 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: ReverseLookup does'nt work!!!



"\"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