DNS failure

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Dec 13 20:52:56 UTC 1999


In article <199912131957.LAA08348 at isrv3.pa.vix.com>,
Marek  <marek at welshdragon.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:43:23 +0000, Marek wrote:
>>>No, it means that there is no reverse DNS for the server's address at all.
>>>nslookup won't use a default server unless that server is able to perform
>>>reverse DNS of its own address.
>>>
>>
>>In that case what courses of action are available to me? I have
>authority over only this 
>>one machine and it's single ip address. Can I get my isp to delegate the
>reverse dns 
>for 
>>this one machine over to me or is that not possible. If not what can i
>do to run my own 
>>dns server?
>>cheers
>
>Actually sorry I missread the message. Will the server run ok without
>reverse dns for 
>itself on the same machine? If not please consider the previous question.
> If it will then 
>disregard it.  Thanks

The server is fine.  Only nslookup cares if the server can perform reverse
DNS of its own address.  If you use a sensible utilities like "dig" and
"host", you'll never even notice the missing reverse DNS.

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