having problems with the reverse zone for a domain

[Merton Campbell Crockett]

Sympatico has not delegated the IP address to you nor does it have an  
entry in the 254.55.70.in-addr.arpa zone for the IP address that  
they've assigned to you.

Merton Campbell Crockett



On 09 May 2006, at 09:16 , enediel gonzalez wrote:

> I repeat mi last email, adding the real name and public ip.
>
> I have a domain name server associated to an static ip, at the same  
> time is
> the mail server of this domain, but checking the domain  
> configuration with
> the page www.dns.report I got everything fine except:
>
> **********************************
> ERROR: The IP of one or more of your mail server(s) have no reverse  
> DNS
> (PTR) entries (if you see "Timeout" below, it may mean that your  
> DNS servers
> did not respond fast enough). RFC1912 2.1 says you should have a  
> reverse DNS
> for all your mail servers. It is strongly urged that you have them,  
> as many
> mailservers will not accept mail from mailservers with no reverse  
> DNS entry.
>    You can double-check using the 'Reverse DNS Lookup' tool at the  
> DNSstuff
> site (it contacts your servers in real time; the reverse DNS  
> lookups in the
> DNS report use our local caching DNS server). The problem MX  
> records are:
> 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa [No reverse DNS entry (rcode: 3 ancount: 0)
> ********************************
>
> 'm using debian with bind9, and my current configuration is
>
>
> inside of named.conf
> --------------------------
>
> zone "consultantbit.com" {
>          type master;
>          file "/etc/bind/consultantbit.com.hosts";
>          };
>
> zone "254.55.70.in-addr.arpa" {
>          type master;
>          file "/etc/bind/consultantbit.com.hosts.reverse";
>          };
>
> content of /etc/bind/consultantbit.com.hosts
> -----------------------------------------------------
> $ttl 38400
> consultantbit.com.      IN      SOA     server1.consultantbit.com.
> root.consultantbit.com. (
>                          2005082401
>                          10800
>                          3600
>                          604800
>                          38400 )
> consultantbit.com.      IN      NS      server1.consultantbit.com.
> server2.consultantbit.com.      IN      A       70.55.254.2
> consultantbit.com.      IN      NS      server2.consultantbit.com.
> server1.consultantbit.com.      IN      A       70.55.254.2
> consultantbit.com.      IN      MX      10 server1.consultantbit.com.
> ftp.consultantbit.com.  IN      A       70.55.254.2
> www.consultantbit.com.  IN      A       70.55.254.2
> consultantbit.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx:server1.consultantbit.com ~all"
>
> /etc/bind/consultantbit.com.hosts.reverse
> --------------------------------------------------
> $ORIGIN 254.55.70.in-addr.arpa.
> @       IN      SOA     server1.consultantbit.com.  
> root.consultantbit.com. (
>                          2005082401
>                          10800
>                          3600
>                          604800
>                          38400 )
>          IN      NS      server1.consultantbit.com.
>          IN      NS      server2.consultantbit.com.
>
> 2     IN      PTR     server1.consultantbit.com.
>
>
> Something is wrong on the reverse declaration, but I can not figure  
> out what
> it is.
>
> When I restart the bind9 service, it doesn't report me any error.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion
> Enediel
> Linux user 300141 Debian GNU/Linux
>
>
>

Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at adelphia.net