zone transfers

Hayden Wimmer hwimmer at bakerref.com
Wed May 24 15:44:02 UTC 2000


my forward file transfers but not my reverse...any hints???
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
<comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: please,please help


>In article <001901bfc580$4a639830$9f01a8c0 at 523.bakerref.com>,
>Hayden Wimmer <hwimmer at bakerref.com> wrote:
>>when i do nslookups i always get this in-addr.arpa
>>for example
>>nslookup 192.168.1.234    returns
>>
>>server: hemi.168.192.in-addr.arpa
>>address: 192.168.1.248
>>
>>name: charger.168.192.in-addr.arpa
>>address: 192.168.1.234
>
>>here is the reverse file
>>
>>;
>>;  reverse mapping
>>;
>>;
>>
>>test.com. IN SOA hemi.test.com. root.hemi.test.com.(
>
>This should be:
>
>168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ...
>
>or:
>
>@ IN SOA ...
>
>Also, you need a space before the '('.
>
>>       4  ; serial
>>  21600  ; refresh
>>  1800  ; retry
>>  604800  ; expire
>>  86400 )  ; minimum
>>
>>
>>;name servers
>> IN NS hemi.test.com.
>> IN NS supernova.test.com.
>
>>;reverse
>>1.1 IN MX 10 jebwebsrv1
>>234.1 IN MX 20 charger
>
>Why do you have MX records in a reverse domain?
>
>>248.1 IN NS hemi
>>248.5 IN NS supernova
>>248.5 IN  PTR supernova
>
>This should be:
>
>248.5 IN PTR supernova.test.com.
>
>Any name that doesn't end in "." gets the name of the zone appended to it,
>and in this case the zone name is "168.192.in-addr.arpa".  So if you don't
>put a fully-qualified name in the PTR records, it's treated as:
>
>248.5.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR supernova.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
>
>--
>Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
>Genuity, Burlington, MA
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