Getting a name from an IP

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Mon Apr 17 14:12:07 UTC 2000


In article <38F8C886.E553C1F0 at kyndig.com>, Kyndig  <kyndig at kyndig.com> wrote:
>Greets group,
>  A definate newbie to bind. I am trying to get the server name from my
>IP adress to work. I believe I have setup
>the bind to work correctly ( operating off only 1 IP )...yet when I log
>into any site, the adress returned is my
>IP for the socket...not my cache'd name.
>
>The server name is: mudmagic.com   and the IP is 207.144.236.186
>any assistance would be greatly
>appreciated.

Your ISP is messed up.  The 144.207.in-addr.arpa domain is delegated to
dns2.infoave.net and dns4.infoave.net, but they don't have the zone
installed on their servers.

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