Help - Problem Propagating Reverse Zone

[Adam Retter]

Peter,

This zone was allocation not long ago by our ISP to replace an older smaller
IP block, when a subnet is allocated by our ISP should they be delegating it
to our NS Servers.

i.e. Are our ISP at fault here?

Thanks

Adam.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Ehlke" <pde at ehlke.net>
To: "Adam Retter" <adam at cosmic.org.uk>
Cc: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Help - Problem Propagating Reverse Zone


> 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
>
>


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