Newbie Reverse PTR Question

[Kevin Darcy]

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>I have Bind8 running on NT (yeah, yeah, I know....it's just until I feel more comfortable with Linux)
>dnsstuff.com reports the following:
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>How I am searching:
>Asking e.root-servers.net for 227.75.168.63.in-addr.arpa PTR record:  
>      e.root-servers.net says to go to INDIGO.ARIN.NET. (zone: 63.in-addr.arpa.)
>Asking INDIGO.ARIN.NET. for 227.75.168.63.in-addr.arpa PTR record:  Timed out.  Trying again.
>Asking ARROWROOT.ARIN.NET. for 227.75.168.63.in-addr.arpa PTR record:  
>      arrowroot.arin.net says to go to NS3-AUTH.SPRINTLINK.NET. (zone: 168.63.in-addr.arpa.)
>Asking NS3-AUTH.SPRINTLINK.NET. for 227.75.168.63.in-addr.arpa PTR record:  
>      ns3-auth.sprintlink.net says to go to ns5.bci1.com. (zone: 227.75.168.63.in-addr.arpa.)
>Asking ns5.bci1.com. for 227.75.168.63.in-addr.arpa PTR record:  Reports ns5.bci1.com.75.168.63.in-addr.arpa.
>
>Answer:
>63.168.75.227 PTR record: ns5.bci1.com.75.168.63.in-addr.arpa. [TTL = 38400 seconds]
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>Details:
>You have one or more obviously bogus PTR records (pointing to in-addr.arpa).
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>My zone record looks like this:
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>; BIND version named 8.2.4-REL-NT2 Mon May 28 11:03:05 2001
>; BIND version mayer at tecotoo:src/port/winnt
>; zone '75.168.63.in-addr.arpa' 
>; Fri Dec 27 18:37:56 2002
>$ORIGIN in-addr.arpa.
>75.168.63 38400 IN SOA ns5. mhamlin.hyperhog.net. (
>1038882081 10800 3600 604800 38400 )
>        38400 IN NS ns5.
>$ORIGIN 75.168.63.in-addr.arpa.
>171 38400 IN PTR cityofbrownwood.com
>170 38400 IN PTR 002.cityofbrownwood.com
>227 38400 IN PTR ns5.bci1.com
>7 38400 IN PTR ns6.bci1.com
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>What have I done wrong here???
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If you don't dot-terminate names in your zonefile, they are interpreted 
as being relative to the name of the zone.

                                                                        
                                        - Kevin

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