Re: [cobalt-users] PTR Records

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

 <baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote

> I've been told by a RaQ4 owner with a large number of name-based sites
> that enabling PTR records in the RaQ DNS can cause problems.
>
> Is that correct, or some type of Cobalt myth?
>
> thom
I don't run DNS on my RaQ4s, but I do on a RaQ2+ and a RaQ3i.
The issue is that the /etc/named.conf file is written incorrectly.
The line to load the ptr records (.in-addr.arpa file) has an error
it is written in error like so:
zone "0/24.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file
"pri.0-24.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa"; };
and it should be:
zone "0-24.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file
"pri.0-24.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa"; };
This error causes the in.addr-arpa zone to fail to load. And I have quit using
the GUI for this very reason, I forget to correct it and then my ptrs don't
work.
Besides it's faster to just copy one zone to another and edit, then wait on the
GUI.

I don't know if the RaQ4 does this or not, but since both the 2 and the 3 do,
why not?
Gerald