NAT and Question Section Mismatch

[Mark Andrews]

https://www.networkstraining.com/dns-doctoring-cisco-asa/

> On 18 Apr 2020, at 06:26, John Wiles <john at iotis.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
>  
> I am running into a problem that I think is caused by either a misconfiguration in Bind9, our Cisco NAT, or perhaps both.
>  
> The scenario:
>  
> We host our own sites locally, including internal and external DNS. The external dns servers are delegated for reverse lookups. The NAT is a static one.
>  
> When I am on our internal network, I am able to query both servers and get the appropriate external ip address. However, when I try to do the same thing externally I get “Question section mismatch: got 6.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN.” 
>  
> Some online tools will resolve the public ip to the appropriate hostname, but they will also show the ip as 10.1.1.6. Normally this wouldn’t be an issue except that I think it is the reason for some emails not being delivered.
>  
> Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated.
>  
> John 
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