question about reverse zones and nsupdate

Grant Taylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Wed Jun 7 22:41:36 UTC 2017


On 06/07/2017 02:18 PM, kevin martin wrote:
> I have tried to setup a reverse zone as 10.10.in-addr.arpa and perform 
> 'update add' commands sending addresses like 22.22.10.10.in-addr.arpa 
> and 2.5.10.10.in-addr.arpa and, in all cases, the update fails with 
> NOTZONE.  bind complains "update failed: update RR is outside zone 
> (NOTZONE)".  Just how "tight" does the arpa zone need to be?  what would 
> be IN zone in this case?  When I'm NOT using dynamic dns I have a zone 
> file that is ORIGIN in-addr.arpa and just post manual entries that look 
> like "22.22.10.10.in-addr.arpa. PTR host.myhosts.com " and reverse 
> resolution works fine.

Low hanging fruit.  Make sure that you have the trailing dot on your 
qname so that it is fully qualified.  That prevents search domains from 
mucking with things that it thinks are unqualified.

Been there, done that.  Learned my lesson.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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