reverse lookup for single address

Tony Tung tonytung at csua.berkeley.edu
Wed Sep 8 19:17:32 UTC 2004


Hi,

I'm trying to get my name server on my server to answer reverse lookup.
That is, my server lives at 12.34.56.78 (address faked), but that is the
only address I have.  I want to be able to do this from a remote server:

nslookup 12.34.56.78 12.34.56.78

and get a correct resolution.  I've managed to do that much.  However, I
can no longer reverse-resolve other addresses in the same subnet from my
own server, i.e., I cannot reverse-map 12.34.56.80.

Can someone give me some tips?  This is what I have in my named.conf:

zone "56.34.12.in-addr.arpa" IN {
        type slave;
        file "master/pub.rev";
        masters {
            64.81.79.2;
            216.231.41.2;
        };
};

and in pub.rev:

$ORIGIN 56.34.12.in-addr.arpa.
$TTL    3600
@       IN      SOA
myserver.org. root.myserver.org.  (
                                20030406        ; Serial
                                3600    ; Refresh
                                900     ; Retry
                                3600000 ; Expire
                                3600 )  ; Minimum
        IN      NS      myserver.org.
78      IN      PTR     myserver.org.


Thanks!
Tony


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