reverse lookup

[Kevin Darcy]

Well, you didn't answer any of the questions I asked. Are you interested 
in being helped or not?

                                                                        
                                    - Kevin

T wrote:

>my DHCP server will not allow dynamic updates.
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>i have windows setup to register in DNS and it will only register in the
>forward zone.
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>also nsupdate will only register in the forward zone.
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>if I manually add to the reverse zone everything will work.
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>is this normal?
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>On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:33:17 +0000, Kevin Darcy wrote:
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>>meagain wrote:
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>>>this is what I get when I try to do a reverse look up of a machine on m=
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>>>lan.
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>>>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>>>1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 86400   IN      SOA     1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
>>>root.loc
>>>alhost.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 2 28800 7200 604800 86400
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>>>I dont get an answer. everything will work fine with forward lookups.
>>>if I add the reverse info my hand it will work fine.
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>>>I still dont understand why the reverse zone will not update dynamicly.
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>>>have a good one
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>>>T wrote:
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>>>>I setup a bind9 server to cache Internet requests,
>>>>and to resolve names on my LAN.
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>>>>Windows machines are able to update there info automatically and with
>>>>Linux, I need to add the info.
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>>>>I have not figured out how to have dhcp add that information yet.
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>>>>I have a question on reverse look up.
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>>>>When trying to test if everything is working  ok i used the dig comma=
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>>>>If I use the command =E2??dig ftp.mylan.cxm=E2?? everything looks to =
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>>work correctly.
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>>>>If I use the command =E2??dig 192.168.1.79=E2??,
>>>>it will not give me the host name ftp.mylan.cxm
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>>>>anyway I am not sure if I have something messed up or not.
>>>>any input would be appreciated.
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>>Well, what kind of DHCP server do you have, and how have you configured i=
>>t to update
>>reverse DNS automatically? Perhaps this question is better suited to a DH=
>>CP-related
>>list.
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>>- Kevin
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