<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt">At about <font face="Arial" size="2">Friday, June 28, 2013 10:54 AM </font><font face="Arial" size="2">Ward, Mike S" <mward@SSFCU.org> wrote:<br><br>></font>Hello all, is there any reason to setup reverse address entries<br>>for a zone?<br><br>It very much depends on the reasons for the forward entries. <br><br>For example:<br><br>Commercial backup software for Microsoft servers require <br>forward-reverse-forward matching. They won't move bytes <br>unless a lookup returns an IP, the reverse lookupo returns a <br>name and a forward lookup for that name matches.<br><br>Commercial and open source email handlers are often<br>configured (some as a default) to refuse or quarantine messages<br>from inbound sessions using non-matching host==>IP==>host <br>entries.<br><br>If it's for a local experimental lab, it
might be a waste of your <br>time to even create the reverse zones.<br><br>Hth,<br>Len<br></div></body></html>