[95882] in RedHat Linux List
RE: reverse name lookup failed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nikki Cook)
Wed Oct 21 22:42:42 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:42:22 -0400
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From: Nikki Cook <sunny@mail.suntrix.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981021212959.don@texas.net>
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Works here=20
[root@shell /root]# host 193.50.229.246
Name: modem2.etud.insa-tlse.fr
Address: 193.50.229.246
Aliases:
[root@shell /root]# host modem2.etud.insa-tlse.fr
modem2.etud.insa-tlse.fr has address 193.50.229.246
[root@shell /root]# nslookup modem2.etud.insa-tlse.fr
Server: noc.suntrix.com
Address: 207.30.87.4
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: modem2.etud.insa-tlse.fr
Address: 193.50.229.246
At 10:29 PM 10/21/98 , you wrote:
>
>On 21-Oct-98 Tressens Lionel wrote:
>> I have configured a machine in my DNS as this :
>>=20
>> 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?
>
>=3D>don
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>E-Mail: Don Slife <don@texas.net>
>Date: 21-Oct-98
>Time: 21:27:02
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Florida
=A0=A0=A0=A0 PPP and Shell Accounts (904) 258-5434
=A0=A0=A0 WEB Design webdesign@mail.suntrix.com
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=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 irc.webbnet.org | irc.us.webbnet.org
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0ftp://ftp.suntrix.com | mail.suntrix.com
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