Greetings list, Bind 8 issue:

Len Conrad LConrad at Go2France.com
Thu Oct 18 15:09:01 UTC 2001



>because sendmail is doing a lookup on the rDNS for the IP address
>206.222.10.x.
>
>          206.222.10.x resolves, they all have reverses

yep

mgw1# dig -x 206.222.10.10

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> -x
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      10.10.222.206.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
10.10.222.206.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN PTR  modem10.zanes.ee.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
10.222.206.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN NS  dns1.ee.net.
10.222.206.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN NS  dns2.ee.net.
10.222.206.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN NS  dns3.ee.net.
10.222.206.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN NS  dns4.ee.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns1.ee.net.            1D IN A         209.51.193.2
dns2.ee.net.            1D IN A         206.222.1.2
dns3.ee.net.            1D IN A         206.222.1.3
dns4.ee.net.            1D IN A         206.222.1.4

;; Total query time: 191 msec
;; FROM: mgw1.meiway.com to SERVER: default -- 212.73.210.69
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 18 17:07:03 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 44  rcvd: 241

 > last few days and I see nothing wrong with any of it.

neither does my dig

>
>Any insight here would be most helpful, thank you for your time and
>consideration.

looks like it time for some sniffing or tcpdump?   How much debugging log 
detail can you turn on in your RAS box?

Len


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