Help - Problem Propagating Reverse Zone

[Pete Ehlke]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 04:56:56PM -0000, Adam Retter wrote:
> Hi Guys - Need some help please if possible,
> 
>     I seem to have a bit of  a problem with propagating my reverse dns zone.
> 
> My Reverse zone is 62.152.213.in-addr.arpa and covers the address block
> 213.152.62.0/24, my name servers are ns1.cosmic.org.uk and ns2.cosmic.org.uk
> 
> My named.conf has the following entry -
> 
> zone "62.152.213.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>         type master;
>         file "62.152.213.in-addr.arpa";
>         notify yes;
>         zone-statistics yes;
> };
> 
> Now what I dont understand is that if I do a reverse name lookup against my
> servers e.g. nslookup 213.152.62.12 then I get a result in this case
> 'pulsar.cosmic.org.uk' however if I try doing a reverse lookup against any
> one else's dns servers on the Internet then I get no result. It would seem
> that my reverse zone is not propagating across the Internet.
> 
> Can anyone explain to my why this is and why reverse lookups arent working
> for us and perhaps even suggest a solution?
> 
That zone is not delegated to your servers:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> 62.152.213.in-addr.arpa ns
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22602
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;62.152.213.in-addr.arpa.	IN	NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
62.152.213.in-addr.arpa. 86314	IN	NS	dns1.eclipse.net.uk.
62.152.213.in-addr.arpa. 86314	IN	NS	dns2.as12513.net.
62.152.213.in-addr.arpa. 86314	IN	NS	dns1.as12513.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns1.eclipse.net.uk.	86314	IN	A	212.104.129.11

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 64.81.113.233#53(64.81.113.233)
;; WHEN: Sat Dec 21 11:56:56 2002
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 139