Bind 9 Reverse Lookup

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Jan 12 15:35:20 UTC 2001


In article <93m1sb$su0 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Ruben I Safir - Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO  <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
>
>Barry
>
>Thank you for ALL your help.
>
>I really apreciate it.
>
>I just wanted to tell you, for future reference since you answer a ton of
>these questions, that in this case, I didn't have a dot after the $origin
>variable.
>
>And for what it's worth, the O'reilly Bind DNS book doesn't have the
>in-addr.arpa added to the PTR records.

Most people don't bother with $ORIGIN.  The origin defaults to the name of
the zone from the named.conf file.  Then you can just enter:

114 IN PTR mail.rm-cpa.com.

and the rest of the reverse name will be added automatically.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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