reverse DNS question

Chris Gray CGRAY at santa-clarita.com
Wed Aug 6 23:48:55 UTC 2003


OK, I understand the point of not top posting, so I've replied below... 
=)

>A: Because people read from top to bottom.
>Q: Why is top posting bad?

>You seem to want to have PTR records for, say,
>193.192-222.136.165.64.in-addr.arpa, but in your zone file, you set
the
>value of $ORIGIN to 192.136.165.64.in-addr.arpa.

>Thus, the line 

>193     PTR     dns1.santa-clarita.com.

>gives you a PTR record for 193.192.136.165.64.in-addr.arpa., which is
>not what you want. Are you sure you followed PacBell's instructions
to
>the letter?

Actually, according to PacBell, and from the fact that it is now
working,
 it doesn't seem work that way.  Also, PacBell's directions were very 
vague.

>-Pete


After trial-and-error testing using the information I received from the
list 
and the correct zone name from PacBell, I have resolved our reverse 
lookup problems.  Below is the current zone and conf files.

Thanks to everyone for your replies!

Cheers!
Chris

[root at DNS1 master-zones]# cat 192.136.165.64.rev
$ttl 38400
192.136.165.64.in-addr.arpa.    IN      SOA     DNS1.santa-clarita.com.
admin.santa-clarita.com. (
                        2003080602
                        10800
                        3600
                        604800
                        38400 )
192.136.165.64.in-addr.arpa.    IN      NS     
DNS1.santa-clarita.com.
$ORIGIN 192.136.165.64.in-addr.arpa.
@       IN      NS      dns1.santa-clarita.com.
        IN      NS      ns1.pbi.net
193     PTR     dns1.santa-clarita.com.
194     PTR     mail.santa-clarita.com.
195     PTR     www.secure-santa-clarita.com.
198     PTR     webcam1.santa-clarita.com.
199     PTR     portal.santa-clarita.com.
200     PTR     phoenix.santa-clarita.com.
201     PTR     pegasus.santa-clarita.com.
205     PTR     www.santa-clarita.com.
[root at DNS1 master-zones]# 

---------------------------------------------------------
from named.conf

zone "192.136.165.64.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/master-zones/192.136.165.64.rev";
        };

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