[95881] in RedHat Linux List
RE: reverse name lookup failed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Slife)
Wed Oct 21 22:31:23 1998
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.03.9810211157510.24565-100000@blagnac.etud.insa-tlse.fr>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:29:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: Don Slife <don@texas.net>
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On 21-Oct-98 Tressens Lionel wrote:
> I have configured a machine in my DNS as this :
>
> in /var/named/pz/named.etud.insa-tlse.fr :
> modem2 IN A 193.50.229.246
> in /var/named/pz/name.229.50.193.in-addr.arpa (for reverse) :
> 246 IN PTR modem2.etud.insa-tlse.fr.
<snip>
> When I ping modem2, the good machine is pinged.
> When I ping 193.50.229.246, the good machine is pinged.
Pinging the ip address doesn't prove reverse lookup works. Try running
nslookup and seeing if it can find 193.50.229.246. . .if it can't you're
reverse lookup is not working right.
Your in-addr.arpa file looks right...what does the line in the named.boot file
look like the tells named to read the in-addr.arpa file?
=>don
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E-Mail: Don Slife <don@texas.net>
Date: 21-Oct-98
Time: 21:27:02
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