reverse DNS problem

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> > I am currently having a problem with reverse DNS where my provider 
> > doesn't know from where the data comes from, if I do a dig on the IP 
> > address I get the following result:
> > 
> > dig -x 216.187.90.119
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28204
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> > 
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;119.90.187.216.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR
> > 
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > 119.90.187.216.in-addr.arpa. 3599 IN    CNAME   lord.pentragon.net.
> > 
> > ;; Query time: 1061 msec
> > ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.15#53(10.0.0.15)
> > ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 10 11:46:25 2002
> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 77
> > 
> > obviously this is quite bad but the problem, now I would like to know 
> > from where does this information come from ? Which DNS server does 
> > answer that ? How can I find this out ?
> 
> Looks like ns1van.peer1.net.

	No. That's from the cache.
> 
> cricket
> 
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