Need help with reverse zone record

Chris Fortune "hey.spammer...just.get" at job.org
Wed Aug 25 06:50:38 UTC 2004


Well, here is my problem: bounced mail
My main IP for the server is 69.56.237.82, and all mail appears to come from
that IP address

SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection:
    host mx02.sccoast.net [66.153.203.185]: 550 Reverse DNS lookup failed
for host 69.56.237.82

Reverse lookup doesn't match!
#nslookup 69.56.237.82          spameater.com
#nslookup spameater.com       69.56.237.84

Same problem for all domains on this server that are not 69.56.237.82
My host company is staffed by people who don't know anything about DNS, but
they can install zone records ok.
Can anybody help me create a zone record and reverse zone record which I can
send to my hosting company?


Below is the CURRENT zone file for this domain.

$TTL 86400
@                        IN SOA   spameater.com. support.spameater.com. (
                                  2003112104     ; serial LAST:cchin
                                  900            ; refresh period
                                  900            ; retry period
                                  1209600        ; expire period
                                  86400)         ; minimum TTL period

spameater.com.           IN NS    ns1.theplanet.com.
spameater.com.           IN NS    ns2.theplanet.com.
spameater.com.           IN MX    10 mail
spameater.com.           IN A     69.56.237.84
www                      IN A     69.56.237.84
ftp                      IN A     69.56.237.84
mail                     IN A     69.56.237.84
fortune01                IN A     69.56.237.82



Here is the ouput of #dig spameater.com, which should provide a good start
to a reverse zone record for somebody (maybe you?) who knows what they are
doing.

# dig spameater.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> spameater.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3808
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;spameater.com.                 IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
spameater.com.          14400   IN      A       69.56.237.84

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
spameater.com.          14400   IN      NS
216.234.234.30.spameater.com.
spameater.com.          14400   IN      NS      12.96.160.115.spameater.com.

;; Query time: 35 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 25 01:37:01 2004
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 104


something like this?

spameater.com.          14400   IN      A       69.56.237.82
spameater.com.          14400   IN      PTR  82.237.56.69.IN-ADDR.ARPA

but where does it go?, and can I have more than one A record for
spameater.com?  help!





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