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Re: Reverse lookup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Thomas)
Tue Nov 3 13:33:42 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:31:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Greg Thomas <gregt@nadel.com>
To: Godfrey Nix <g.nix@emnet.co.uk>
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In-Reply-To: <199811031813.SAA28813@byron.emnet.co.uk>
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> > The only thing that has changed is the workstation's IP address so I
> > figure it's a problem with reverse IP lookup??? Anyway, if somebody can
> > let me know what files I need to check to get this going again I sure
>
> Look at the file /etc/named.conf (or it may be /etc/named.boot
> depending on what version of named RH4.1 uses)
>
> There should be reference to the domain for your machines,
> and one for the reverse domain, like this -
>
> (from named.boot)
> primary mydomain.com db.mydomain.com
> primary z.y.x.in-addr.arpa db.reverse
>
> The file to look at is db.reverse - check the contents of
> this file, and dont forget to change the entry in the boot
> file (or named.conf as appropriate). The z.y.x is taken
> from your class C address of x.y.z.0 (note the octets are
> put in reverse order.
>
Thanks much. By going over the named.* files again I just figured it out.
I hadn't updated the primary line for the reverse file in named.boot with
my new class C.
Thanks again, Greg
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