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Re: [cobalt-users] Reverse dns



Somehow I misunderstand you. Could you please show the actual
DNS records you are using?
 
As I understand DNS, when you have a server like
 
        www.mydomain.com.                 A        192.98.84.182
 
then the reverse record would read:
 
        182.84.98.192.in-addr.arpa.     IN PTR     www.mydomain.com.
 
So your example with the 100.100.100.100 is not understood by me.
 
1.)    the final dots are missing
2.)    the PTR record is not part of the IN-ADDR.ARPA. domain
3.)    the order of the bytes might not be reversed (this cannot be seen in your example,
        because all bytes have the same value 100).
 
Finally if you are in need to set up the reverse domain, you must own a complete ARPA
subdomain, e.g. you must have got 255 IP-adresses from your upstream ISP provider,
because otherwise he would be the one who has the authority over the ARPA-records.
 
So you see, I'm totally confused by your question. And I'm not the first one in this
email list who asks you to be more specific. Nevertheless it seems to me as if you
resent your original question unmodified. So please RTFEL - Read The Fantastic Email List -
 
Thank you.
Michael
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Tehan" <sysadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 3:56 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Reverse dns

> Hello
>
> How come when I set a Reverse address (PTR record) the ip wont resolve the
> domain?
>
> Example: If I /dns 100.100.100.100 why is it not resolving
www.mydomain.com?
>
> *** Looking up 100.100.100.100
> *** Unable to resolve 100.100.100.100
>
> What I want to do is:
>
> *** Looking up 100.100.100.100
> *** Resolved 100.100.100.100 to
www.mydomain.com
>
> I'm running Raq 2's as the dns servers
>
> BCT
>
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