Reverse DNS issues

ngaccess at hotpop.com ngaccess at hotpop.com
Tue Nov 4 15:30:19 UTC 2003


I concur with the other posts also but is sounds to me as though you are 
not athoratative for the reverse .... (no SOA record)  

HTH

On 2 Nov 2003 at 19:12, Don Jones wrote:
To:             	comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
From:           	donjjones at hotmail.com (Don Jones)
Subject:        	Reverse DNS issues
Date sent:      	2 Nov 2003 19:12:08 -0800
Organization:   	http://groups.google.com

> We have a class of IP addresses from our ISP which we currently run
> DNS for and also would like to run reverse DNS.  In speaking with our ISP,
> they have configured our subnet so we can run reverse DNS on our own
> servers.  We have DNS configured with reverse zones configured as well on
> our servers.  The problem we are having is that the only way we can run a
> successful reverse lookup on our hosts when the ISPs DNS servers have our
> information cached.  What I mean exactly if I were to run a reverse lookup
> from an outside server, it always fails.  If I then run a reverse lookup
> directly using our ISP's DNS server, it works and then subsequently works
> for all outside DNS servers for a couple of days.  Any idea what I can be
> missing here?  We are running Windows 2000 DNS and our ISP is running
> Windows 2000 DNS as well.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Don
> 
> 
> 





More information about the bind-users mailing list