Reverse DNS trauma

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	Must be the day for typos.

		199.224.195.in.addr.arpa 
			vs
		199.224.195.in-addr.arpa 

	Mark

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Any ideas why my BIND server is not authoritive for a zone it has a zone
> file for?
> 
> Let me explain... I've currently got reverse DNS managed by a Microsoft DNS
> server, but I want to move everything to BIND 9 on linux.  The forward
> lookups work exactly as I'd expect, and I thought I'd set everything up
> right. Feeding the reverse zone files I wrote into MS DNS works, but when I
> try and query the BIND server using the same zone files this happens:
> --------------------------------
> % nslookup -sil
> > set type=ptr
> > set norecurse
> > 195.224.199.40
> Server:         195.224.180.227
> Address:        195.224.180.227#53
> 
> Authoritative answers can be found from:
> 199.224.195.in-addr.arpa        nameserver = kamet.pncl.co.uk.
> --------------------------------
> 
> 
> Surely if the zone is being hosted by this server the answer should be
> authoritive?  With recursive queries turned on, it works, but that's because
> it's querying the NT box.
> 
> 
> -------------------------
> Here are the first few lines of my reverse zone file:
> -------------------------
> $TTL 88400
> @       IN      SOA     solo.pncl.co.uk. root.solo.pncl.co.uk. (
>                                 2001061800      ; Serial
>                                 10800           ; Refresh
>                                 3600            ; Retry
>                                 604800          ; Expire
>                                 86400)          ; TTL
> 
>           IN NS   solo.pncl.co.uk.
> 40      IN PTR  gecko.pncl.co.uk.
> 
> -------------------------
> and here are important lines of the named.conf file:
> -------------------------
> 
> zone "199.224.195.in.addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "199.224.195.in.addr.arpa";
>         allow-transfer {...stuff;};
>         also-notify {...stuff;};
> };
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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