Help setting up classless reverse lookups!

[Barry Margolin]

In article <390D4BA6.82C05550 at trackeronline.com>,
Jason Jasmin  <jason at trackeronline.com> wrote:
>Ok, I've been over every bit of information i can find, and my setup
>still doesn't work... Basically, I have a /27 network, and forward
>lookups work find, but on my reverse lookups I get error like this:
>
>01-May-2000 10:44:37.540 default: info: ns_forw:
>query(83.64/27.44.38.12.in-addr.arpa) contains our address
>(ns.trackeronline.com:12.38.44.84)
>01-May-2000 11:00:01.911 default: info: ns_resp:
>query(84.64/27.44.38.12.in-addr.arpa) contains our address
>(ns.trackeronline.com:12.38.44.84)
>
>Here is my reverse zone file:
>
>$TTL    3600
>@ IN SOA ichabod.trackeronline.com. jason.trackeronline.com. ( ... )
>; clipped to save space
>
>;
>; Name servers
>;
>@ NS ns.trackeronline.com.
>
>;
>; Addresses point to canonical name
>;
>86.IN PTR mail.trackeronline.com.
>84.IN PTR ns.trackeronline.com.

There should be a space or tab before "IN", not a ".".

>And the relevent lines from named.conf
>
>zone "65/27.44.38.12.in-addr.arpa" {

That should be "64/27", not "65/27"

>        type master;
>        file "/etc/bind/db.44.38.12";
>};
>
>I'm no DNS expert here, and this is driving me nuts! Can somebody please
>help?

Don't you hate it when the problem is just a silly typo?

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