DNS reverse lookups sees old server
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Feb 26 18:46:22 UTC 2004
In article <c1lddg$190i$1 at sf1.isc.org>, google at gtechllc.com (Mitch)
wrote:
> Hello all,
> I hope that this is the appropriate group, but I wasn't sure where to
> start... I've got a reverse lookup issue with our mail server. The
> problem is that I do the host command on a linux box and it sees the
> IP address (eg: host mail.mycompany.com returns 208.25.66.194)
> then I do host on the IP address (eg: host 208.25.66.194 returns
> oldmail.mycompany.com). The problem is that doing the host
> command on our mail server IP returns the name of the old mail server
> and I'm not sure where to go to fix it!... I'm somewhat failiar with
> DNS and how it works, but I didn't setup the system here and could use
> some help in figuring out where to start.
Is that the real IP address? When I try that reverse lookup, two of the
three servers don't respond at all, and the third one doesn't have any
PTR record for the address.
If you want our help, repost with the real names and address.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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