Info on Reverse Dns

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9ifb1t$3hk at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Mike Lander <mechiman at home.com> wrote:
>I typed in my zone files "234  IN PTR mail.lanlinecomputers.com" I did not
>type 234 at the end ie: "234 IN PTR mail.lanlinecomputers.com.234"

You shouldn't type 234 at the end.  You should just type the hostname.

>and I did this for all the entrys in the zone
>'lanline.49.42.64.in-addr.arpa" I did not think it looked right. My question
>was is it needed?
>I have primary and secondary working now a firewall is up on the primary,
>but you can try zone transfers on secondary to check this.

There seems to be a firewall blocking TCP port 53 to both servers.  But the
reverse entries for 64.42.49.{234,236,237} all look good to me.

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