No query to root-nameserver for private ips

[Stefan Puiu]

On 3/14/06, Leopold Aichinger <tux at example.com> wrote:
> for ipaddresse outside this range (for example the do a reverse lookup
> for the ip 10.1.2.3).
[...]
> if I do now a:
> # dig @127.0.0.1 +trace 10.1.2.3
> logged in on the internal dns I get the following output:

You have to use 'dig -x' for reverse lookups. With the command line
you used it will just look for the domain "10.1.2.3" instead of
3.2.1.10.in-addr.arpa as it should.