* Simon Waters [20011108 14:47]: writing on the subject 'Re: Reverse Delegation - RIPE' | | Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > | > This message concerns your request for delegation of the zone | > | > 74.49.212.in-addr.arpa | | > Couldn't get an SOA record from ns2.wananchi.com | > (62.8.64.4). | | > Warning 1 | > (4) | > | > None of the PTR records found for 62.8.64.4 mapped back to | > ns2.wananchi.com. | | > Couldn't get an SOA record from ns1.wananchi.com | > (62.8.64.3). | | This seems pretty straight forward. You must set up the zone on | the servers before requesting the delegation, neither server is | answering for this reverse zone, so the delegation is refused. | This is probably to ensure that the reverse lookups fail | gracefully. If they delegated it, and you never set up the zone, | or got it wrong, things could get messy. RIPE is obliged to do | it's best to ensure that the reverse DNS is in good order, it | says that in the paper work somewhere. | | The reverse lookup of ns2.wananchi.com address is | mail.wananchi.com - since this is a warning I assume you can | ignore it. Although life may be simpler if you keep the | canonical name in agreement with what you tell the registrar. | But it probably requires changing the mail server configuration | to fix it now, so save that one for the long winter nights, | unless it becomes a showstopper. Hello Simon, What I have done now, after your advise, is to add the following entry into my named.conf: zone "0/25.74.49.212.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "212.49.74.rev"; }; Since I don't own the whole of 212.49.74.0/24. I own 212.49.74.0/25. Is my setup correct? I have done that and created a zone file, like this: $TTL 172800 @ IN SOA ns1.wananchi.com. hostmaster.wananchi.com. ( 2001110802 ; Serial number 172800 ; Refresh every 2 days 3600 ; Retry every hour 1728000 ; Expire every 20 days 172800 ; Minimum 2 days ) IN NS ns1.wananchi.com. IN NS ns2.wananchi.com. 1 IN PTR gw.wananchi.com. 2 IN PTR longonot.wananchi.com. 3 IN PTR ns1.wananchi.com. 4 IN PTR ns2.wananchi.com. 5 IN PTR alligator.wananchi.com. 6 IN PTR acr.wananchi.com. This block was allocated to me by our uplink provider. Unfortunately they are much worse than I am when it comes to issues like this. In fact I am better I know howto delegate. Since this is a /25, I guess there is no chance of achieving the delegation??? TIA -Wash S y s t e m s A d m i n i s t r a t o r -- ~\\_ Odhiambo Washington \\\\ Wananchi Online Ltd., `\\\\\ 1st Flr Loita Hse, Loita Street |\\\\\ PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. \\\\\|__.--~~\ Fax: 254 2 313985-9 _--~ / Fax: 254 2 313922 /~ ////// _-~~~~' E-mail: wash@wananchi.com ('-//////-// URL : http://www.wananchi.com //////(((-) GSM: 254 72 743 223 / 254 733 744 121 /////" _///" +++ Bank error in your favor. Collect $200. -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE76npSn7LIsuxjem8RAkjVAJ4hECtWldD+mxDtFGFesbzguTjlowCgrfvr LZjvSOYXRiKHjhZQ4sCHMCo= =jaIk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----