Reverse lookup: no 'A' records?

[Derek J. Balling]

I think a copy of "DNS and BIND, Third Edition" is in your future. There
are so many fundamental knowledge issues here that they can't/shouldn't be
addressed in this forum...

D


At 1:22 PM -0800 11/16/00, Kevin D. Quitt wrote:
>For no particular reason, I tried to do a lookup on my system's IP, using
>the DNS server on my system (which is primary for my domain).  I either
>got a timeout, or a message that there were no 'A' records for that IP.
>
>In my db.ZONEINFO, I have:
>
>		IN	A	4.3.2.43
>ns1		IN	A	4.3.2.43
>mailhost	IN	A	4.3.2.43
>mail		IN	A	4.3.2.43
>ftp		IN	A	4.3.2.42
>ns2		IN	A	4.3.2.42
>
>(IP addresses obviously munged).
>
>Is this not sufficient?  What else do I need to reverse lookup to work?
>
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