reverse delegation

[Bill Moseley]

At 04:33 AM 06/22/00 +0200, Thomas Reitelbach wrote:
>hello list,
>
>i've gotten 8 ip-adresses from my provider and have set up the
>reverse-zone for my net.

>now i want my provider to set up the delegation for the reverse zone to
>my nameserver. but when my provider performs a test of my zone i'm
>getting the following error message in /var/log/messages:
>
>named[18228]: unapproved AXFR from [62.156.153.47].48029 for
>"64.204.153.62.in-addr.arpa" (not zone top)
>
>can anyone explain this message to me and what can i do about it?
>
>my zone file looks like this:
>
>$ TTL 14D
>204.153.62.in-addr.arpa.        IN      SOA     frzdaten.troficent.de.

My guess is you don't want to do the reverse for the entire subnet, just
your eight IP addresses.  Thus, as you can see in the AXFR request, you
zone should be 64.204.153.62.in-addr.arpa.

Also, make sure you allow-transfer to your ISP's name servers.





Bill Moseley
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