BIND 9 needs both forward and reverse

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:33:15PM -0000, Andy Francis wrote:
> It seems that BIND 9.x will not query nameservers that don't have forward
> AND reverse lookup entries for the host machine.
> 
> BIND 9 will check for both before querying and if both are not found then
> the query will not take place.
> 
> We had problems after upgrading with customers not being able to reach
> domains hosted on nameservers without a successful reverse, BIND 8 didn't
> seem to care.
> 
> Anyone else come across this?

I suspect that you are using 'nslookup', and then concluding that
because it doesn't work right, it's BIND that's failing.  Either that,
or there are servers like 'sendmail' that need reverse lookups.
Because BIND really doesn't care.

On the other hand, you really SHOULD have your reverse lookup zones set
up.

Try 'dig' or 'host'.

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