Forwarded PTR records not working properly
Gary Wallis
wgg1970 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 2 13:50:57 UTC 2010
Alexander Fortin wrote:
> Hi folks. I'm having problems trying to set up a DNS forwarding zone for
> PTRs records.
>
> The weird thing is that "normal" DNS zones are working fine, but using
> same configurations for the correspondent *.in.addr.arpa zone doesn't
> work. Very strange to me seems that queries using "host" work but with
> "dig" they don't.
>
> The scenario involves my master DNS server trying to ask those records
> from a VPN-connected DNS authoritative server (which unfortunately I
> cannot transfer from). Of course, if I query directly the remote DNS
> server I get answers for both zones:
>
> $ dig @192.168.20.21 hrsrv.mydomain.locale
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> @192.168.20.21 hrsrv.mydomain.locale
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50067
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;hrsrv.mydomain.locale. IN A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> hrsrv.mydomain.locale. 3600 IN A 192.168.20.11
>
> ;; Query time: 696 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.20.21#53(192.168.20.21)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 2 14:45:55 2010
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 53
>
> but...
>
> $ dig @192.168.20.21 192.168.20.11 PTR
Try dig @192.168.20.21 -x 192.168.20.11
Cheers!
Gary
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