Reverse Lookup Problem

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Feb 6 19:29:44 UTC 2004


You need to get RIPE, or some intermediary, to delegate that part of the 
reverse namespace to your nameservers.

                                                                         
                              - Kevin

Idris Saliu wrote:

>Hello All,
>  I'm a DNS newbie, trying to setup reverse lookup for a couple of 
>domains. Reverse lookups work fine from within my network, my name 
>server, but i get error messages when I do the same lookup else where. 
>I have attached some files here, maybe the guru's here will see what 
>I'm doing wrong put me through. Thanks in advance.
>
>File: 8.248.80.in-addr.arpa.db
>
>$TTL    1d
>;owner  class   type    data
>@       IN      SOA     flying-dove1.21ctl.com. hostmaster.21ctl.com.  
>(
>                        2003052400      ; serial number YYYYMMDDNN
>                        1h              ; refresh 8 hours
>                        1h              ; retry   1 hours
>                        2w2d            ; expire 2 weeks 2 days
>                        2h )            ; Negative caching TTL of 2 
>hours;
>
>;;
>;;      Name Servers
>;;
>
>                NS      flying-dove1.21ctl.com.
>                NS      flying-dove2.21ctl.com.
>                NS      austin.gh.com.
>                NS      dns1.21ctl.com.
>
>;;
>;;      Network Information
>;;
>
>188             PTR     abn-mail-server.accessbankplc.com.
>
>
>
>File: accessbankplc.com.db
>
>$TTL    2h
>;owner  class   type    data
>@       IN      SOA     flying-dove1.21ctl.com. hostmaster.21ctl.com.  
>(
>                        2003080200      ; serial number YYYYMMDDNN
>                        1h              ; refresh 8 hours
>                        1h              ; retry   1 hours
>                        2w2d            ; expire 2 weeks 2 days
>                        2h )            ; Negative caching TTL of 2 
>hours;
>
>;;      Name Servers
>;;
>; There must be an A record for flying-dove1.21ctl.com. elsewhere in 
>this file.
>; You can't use a CNAME for this.
>;
>                NS      flying-dove1.21ctl.com.
>                NS      flying-dove2.21ctl.com.
>                NS      dns1.21ctl.com.
>;
>;
>;;
>;;      Mail Forwarders
>;;
>; The machines at your site running SMTP servers that are prepared to
>; accept mail from the outside world, plus off-site backups.
>; There must be an A record for mailhost.gh.com. elsewhere in this
>; file.  You can't use a CNAME for this.
>;
>                MX      5       abn-mail-server.accessbankplc.com.
>;
>; Only include Upstream relays if you are a Caller customer,
>; or have explicitly requested extra off-site backup.
>;
>localhost       A       127.0.0.1
>;
>; Put your host names and addresses in here
>;
>abn-mail-server         A       80.248.8.188
>#www                    IN      A       64.239.82.43
>www                     IN      A       12.30.241.66
>webmail                 IN      A       80.248.8.186
>infopool                IN      A       80.248.8.189
>
>;
>; Put your host canonical names (CNAMES) in here
>;
>
>
>
>
>
>  
>




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