Q: reverse lookup fails, why?

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	Thats usually the case.  Talk to your ISP as they should be able
	to help you.

	Mark

> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a working bind (8.2.2p5) DNS server on Linux, which I configured 
> using the DNS-howto (v2.2) 
> 
> My problem is that although forward lookups work fine from anywhere, 
> reverse lookups only work from inside my domain. Now I assume that my 
> reverse domain isn't know to higher level DNS servers, but I don't know 
> enough about DNS to figure out what I have done wrong?
> 
> can someone explain the how and why for me?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
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