Opinon from the pros

[wwebb at adni.net]

Verio had the reverse DNS configured to show glr.cap.gov for IP 
198.88.0.19.  Apparently they dropped that configuration and a 
trouble ticket is pending with them to fix it.   In the meantime, 
however, I have three questions for which I would appreciate 
anyones assistance. (I'm using 8.2.2P-5, named is acting 
authoritatively for its zones)  

1. Are these two entries correct ?

NAMED.CONF:

<snip>

zone "0.88.198.in-addr.arpa" in {
        type master;
        file "pz/198.88.0";
};

<snip>

PZ/198.88.0

IN      SOA     glr.cap.gov.  postmaster.ns1.cap.gov.  (
                     1999121301 86400 10800 2592000 86400 )
         NS      ns1.cap.gov.
         MX      10 glr.cap.gov.
         PTR     glr.cap.gov.
  
2)  When I re-start named, the messages log includes this entry:

Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].1176
  
Likewise, when I type nslookup, it says:

[root at glr pz]# nslookup
Default Server:  glr.cap.gov
Address:  0.0.0.0

"hostname" shows "glr.cap.gov"

/etc/resolv.conf shows:

domain glr.cap.gov
nameserver ns1.cap.gov
search cap.gov

Why is the address showing as: 0.0.0.0  instead of 198.88.0.19 ?

3.	Contemporaneous with  these "problems," sendmail is 
reporting: gethostbyaddr(198.88.0.19) failed: 2    Is this completely 
unrelated to named or is it solely connected to Verio not having the 
reverse DNS set correctly or ... ?   

THANKS for any help.

Bill Webb