Forwarded PTR records not working properly

[Alexander Fortin]

On 04/02/2010 03:50 PM, Gary Wallis wrote:
> Try dig @192.168.20.21 -x 192.168.20.11
>
> Cheers!
> Gary

$ dig @192.168.20.21 -x 192.168.20.11

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> @192.168.20.21 -x 192.168.20.11
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22045
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;11.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa.    IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
11.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN     PTR     hrsrv.mydomain.locale.

;; Query time: 54 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.20.21#53(192.168.20.21)
;; WHEN: Fri Apr  2 16:21:24 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 77

Dig works too!

Sorry, usually I'm fine with "host" I don't know the dig tool very well..

So what's wrong with my forwarder?!

$ dig @localhost -x 192.168.20.11

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> @localhost -x 192.168.20.11
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 15062
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;11.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa.    IN      PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
168.192.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      SOA     localhost. 
root.localhost. 1 604800 86400 2419200 86400

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Apr  2 16:24:36 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 94

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Alexander Fortin

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