(Fwd) Re: Help, reverse resolve on classless subnet wackyness

Sandy Murdock sandy at amstone.net
Wed Jun 9 11:30:08 UTC 1999


I would like to be removed ASAP. Thank You


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Date sent:      	Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:58:21 -0700
From:           	Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com>
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To:             	Jeremy Friesen <rejemy at dreamwing.com>
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Subject:        	Re: Help, reverse resolve on classless subnet wackyness
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Jeremy Friesen wrote:
> 
> This is probably a terrible newbie mistake, as I am in fact a terrible
> newbie, but I couldn't find it in the FAQ, so here goes. I'm trying to run
> my own DNS for a small (16 IPs) subnet. I've set up bind, and when used
> localy, everything is find and dandy. 206.86.17.130 properly resolves to
> "vega.epits.com".
> The ISP has delegated reverse DNS to my server, yet when I try to reverse
> DNS my address through an external name server, something frightening
> happens: 206.86.17.130 resolves to "vega.epits.com.17.86.206.in-addr.arpa".
> 
> Is this my mistake? My ISP's? They don't know either. Here's the file involved:
> 

Your DNS file is fine. It looks like your ISP's zone file for the
reverse domain may have dropped the dot at the end of the hostname.

Michael


Sandy Murdock
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