reverse DNS problem

[Cricket Liu]

> I am currently having a problem with reverse DNS where my provider 
> doesn't know from where the data comes from, if I do a dig on the IP 
> address I get the following result:
> 
> dig -x 216.187.90.119
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28204
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;119.90.187.216.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> 119.90.187.216.in-addr.arpa. 3599 IN    CNAME   lord.pentragon.net.
> 
> ;; Query time: 1061 msec
> ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.15#53(10.0.0.15)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 10 11:46:25 2002
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 77
> 
> obviously this is quite bad but the problem, now I would like to know 
> from where does this information come from ? Which DNS server does 
> answer that ? How can I find this out ?

Looks like ns1van.peer1.net.

cricket

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