I am trying to setup a very simple reverse lookup only serveron Windows

Pete Ehlke pde at ehlke.net
Tue Jul 22 22:49:39 UTC 2003


On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:24:24PM -0700, Dale Cabell wrote:
> Is anyone out there?????????...........
> 
> Well??????

Being demanding in a forum where you're asking for free technical
support isn't likely to win you much extra effort.

> 
> Dale Cabell
> 
> >>> "Dale Cabell" <dcabell at dhs.co.la.ca.us> 07/22/03 11:46AM >>>
> I am trying to setup a very simple reverse lookup only server on Windows=3D=
> 20=3D

Please train your mail client to post in plain ascii. This message is
exceptionally hard to read for the majority of us here who use ascii
clients.

> 
> 2000 for the 159.225.148.0 range on a server. I have the following in =3D
> the=3D20
> \winnt\system32\dns\etc directory, with the binary installed in ..\bin.
> 
> 07/21/2003  04:01p                  52  148.rev
> 07/21/2003  03:38p                 159  named.conf
> 07/21/2003  04:02p                   5  named.pid
> 07/21/2003  03:15p                  81  rndc.key
> 
> The ISC Bind service starts but the reverse lookups do not work. Why? I do =
> =3D
> not need forward lookups. This is for an inside only server for network=3D2=
> 0
> management. This is simplified to make for quick problem resolution, I
> hope.
> 
> I want the minimum configuration required. One server only, no master
> slave, etc. and just the reverse lookups to 159.225.148.1 to work.
> 
> My named.conf
> 
> // Provide reverse mapping for 159.225.148.0
> 
Above, you say that you want lookups for 1.148.225.159.in-addr.arpa to
work, but you're not defining a zone that encapsulates that. You
probably want 148.225.159.in-addr.arpa rather than
0.148.225.159.in-addr.arpa.

> zone "0.148.225.159.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "c:\winnt\system32\dns\etc\148.rev";
>         notify no;
> };
> 
> 
> My zone file
> 
> 
> msfc2   IN      A       159.225.148.1

This isn't a zone file. Zone files must have an SOA record. Further,
what you're defining here is an A record for
msfc2.0.148.225.159.in-addr.arpa, when what you seem to want is a PTR
for 1.148.225.159.in-addr.arpa. 

-Pete


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