Getting started with BIND

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c22p3i$19rg$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Jason <jwilliams at courtesymortgage.com> wrote:
> I can't seem to do nslookup on the IP addresses for scarydaemons and 
> loanblade. Comes back with the following:
> 
> scarydaemons# nslookup 192.168.1.207
> Server:  localhost.acme.com
> Address:  127.0.0.1
> 
> *** localhost.acme.com can't find 192.168.1.207: Non-existent host/domain
> 
> I figure im missing something small, but cant seem to figure it out.

The zone you created is used for translating names to addresses.  If you 
want to translate addresses to names, you must create an additional 
"reverse" zone, 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.

The DNS & BIND book has examples of this.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA