Can't find server name for address.........

acauth1 at swbell.net acauth1 at swbell.net
Sat Oct 23 06:15:22 UTC 1999


Greetings,

I recently setup DNS on a linux machine, ns1.accesspeople.com, and got
swbell.net to allow reverse delegation in-addr. zone.
I am now getting this error running nslookup:

Can't find server name for address 216.61.42.116, server failed.

Here is a copy of my in-addr.zone (named.216.61.42) file:

112.42.61.216.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA
accesspeople.com.hostmaster.accesspeople.com. (

   1999101015 ; serial
   28800 ; refresh
   14400 ; retry
   3600000 ; expire
   86400 ; default_ttl
   )



              IN  NS    ns1.accesspeople.com.
              IN  NS    ns1.swbell.net.
              IN  NS    ns2.swbell.net.


116         IN   PTR    ns1.accesspeople.com.
114         IN   PTR    serv.accesspeople.com.
115         IN   PTR    mail.accesspeople.com


----------------------------------

Swbell bell stated this:

Your SBIS assigned IP block of :: 216.61.42.112/29
has been delegated to your DNS server for the reverse
in-addr lookups. This is RFC2317 < class C style reverse delegation.

The in-addr zone has been delegated to:
ns1.accesspeople.com  216.61.42.116


You will need to run the following reverse in-addr zone:

112.42.61.216.in-addr.arpa

Please add NS records for ns1.swbell.net and ns2.swbell.net,
and allow zone transfers from these nameservers.

Here is an example setup they provided:

Customers who provide their own forward and reverse zones are delegated the
reverse PTR lookups in the traditional manner.

Delegations of less than one Class C of addresses (i.e. < /24 CIDR) are in
the following RFC 2317 style:


IP Bock Example: 216.101.12.64/29

This would be our delegation:

$ORIGIN 12.101.216.in-addr.arpa.
64
IN NS your-ns.yourdomain.com.

IN NS ns1.swbell.net.

IN NS ns2.swbell.net.
65 IN CNAME 65.64.12.101.216.in-addr.arpa.
66 IN CNAME 66.64.12.101.216.in-addr.arpa.
67 IN CNAME 67.64.12.101.216.in-addr.arpa.
68 IN CNAME 68.64.12.101.216.in-addr.arpa.
69 IN CNAME 69.64.12.101.216.in-addr.arpa.
70 IN CNAME 70.64.12.101.216.in-addr.arpa.


In this example, your-ns.yourdomain.com. should be answering queries for the
zone 64.12.101.216.in-addr.arpa.
$ORIGIN  64.12.101.216.in-addr.arpa.
@                                                             IN NS
your-ns.yourdomain.com.
                                                                 IN NS
ns1.swbell.net.
                                                                 IN NS
ns2.swbell.net.
65 IN PTR host1.yourdomain.com.
66 IN PTR host2.yourdomain.com.
67 IN PTR host3.yourdomain.com.
68 IN PTR host4.yourdomain.com.
69 IN PTR host5.yourdomain.com.
70 IN PTR host6.yourdomain.com.

Note: SBIS policy requires that ns1.swbell.net and ns2.swbell.net be
authoritative for all delegated in-addr.arpa zones. Please allow zone
transfers to occur from ns1.swbell.net and ns2.swbell.net for the in-addr
zones.

I have DNS and BIND book, but can't find a solution.  I'm sure I'm
overlooking the obvious.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you for your time, and with kindest regards, I am,

Robert More
acauth1 at swbell.net






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