Forward and Inverse???
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Feb 9 02:36:05 UTC 2000
The terminology is a little odd, but I get the gist of it.
I think they mean "reverse zone" instead of "inverse resolution zone". An
in-addr.arpa zone, in other words. You know, PTR records run through it...
And then "forward zones" would be everything else, e.g. regular ".com" zones
or whatever.
- Kevin
Sara wrote:
> My ISP says they can act as secondary DNS and synchronize with my primary
> DNS server. After giving them the domain name and ip address, they sent me
> the following e-mail. Can someone help me and tell me what a forward and
> inverse resolution zone is?
>
> We need:
>
> -- The specific domain to pull from their nameserver;
> -- The IP address of the nameserver(s) to pull from;
>
> They need to:
>
> -- Configure the zone to allow transfers from F.NS.DNS.NET (if it
> is a forward resolution zone) or I.NS.DNS.NET (if it is an inverse
> resolution zone).
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