Now I'm in trouble...

[Andrew JW]

Bill,
The rev-map isn't delegated to you - so the queries from AOL are going
to the authoritative name-servers - 



On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 06:48, Bill.Light at kp.org wrote:

> I noticed my postfix mail was being rejected by AOL...upon investigating, 
> it's because of bad DNS.  I'm guessing that I totally missed what I did, 
> because mail used to go from my domain to AOL...now it's not.  In the mail 
> log I see:
> http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/421dnsnr.html
> 
> Which basically says my reverse DNS is foobar'd.  The reason I'm in 
> trouble is half my wife's friends have AOL...
> 
> SBC  gave me 5 usable addresses  66.124.156.120/29  and what I have done 
> is:
> 
> ==> As I understand  120 is the network
> 
> 121 is their router
> 122 is my 1st usable address  (it is my 3-NIC firewall)
> 123 is my web/mail server
> 124  future use
> 125  future use
> 126  future use
> 
> what I have:  /etc/named.conf
> 
> *
> *
> zone "light-family.com" in {
>         type master;
>         also-notify {168.143.168.1; 168.143.171.129; 206.13.28.11; 
> 206.13.29.11; };
>         allow-transfer {168.143.168.1; 168.143.171.129; 206.13.28.11; 
> 206.13.29.11; };
>         file "db.light-family.com";
> };
> zone "hall-brothers.com" in {
>         type master;
>          file "db.hall-brothers.com";
> };
> zone "miss-light.com" in {
>         type master;
>          file "db.miss-light.com";
> };
> zone "120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "db.66.124.156.120";
> };
> zone "123.120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "db.66.124.156.120.123";
> };
> zone "123.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "db.66.124.156.123";
> };
> 
> ==============================================
> 
> "also-notify" & "allow-transfer" are my registrar's name servers
> and SBC's name servers...
> 
> I am confused on the 123.120.156.124.66
> coexisting with the  123.156.124.66  entry...
> 
> Have I at least got /etc/named.conf  correct ?
> 
> I am running SuSE 9.2 (2.6.8-24 kernel) with Bind 9.2.4
> 
> 

Andrew JW
andrew.jw at andrewjw.ca
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