Is my DNS set up properly for reverse lookups?
Tim Lanza
Tim at Lanzahost.com
Thu Jun 24 23:54:44 UTC 1999
So, my reverse lookup zone (333.222.111-in-addr.arpa) will have pointers to
all domains hosted like this?
444 PTR www.forstdomain.com
444 PTR www.seconddomain.com
And are the separate forward lookup configs are correct?
Thanks for the push!
Tim
_________________________________________
Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote in message
news:6wuc3.871$KM3.220952 at burlma1-snr2...
> In article <930194404.189.99 at news.remarQ.com>,
> Tim Lanza <Tim at Lanzahost.com> wrote:
> >zone "333.222.111.in-addr.arpa" {
> > notify no;
> > type master;
> > file "firstdomain.rev";
> >};
> ...
> >zone "333.222.111.in-addr.arpa" {
> > notify no;
> > type master;
> > file "seconddomain.rev";
> >};
>
> Did you really mean for these to be the same zone? You can't have the
> same zone listed twice with different files.
>
> If you have multiple forward domains and a single class C, you just need a
> single reverse zone. It will contain PTR records for all your addresses,
> pointing to the appropriate hostnames. If you want to have separate files
> for each domain's PTR records, use $INCLUDE within the reverse zone file.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
> GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
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