[afnog] DNS Problem (PTR Records on different subnets fails)

[Kayihura M. Eddy]

Hi Noah,

In the 0.16.172.in.addr.arpa file under /var/named do you
have some entries like:

2     14400   IN      PTR     name.you.want.

Can you paste the content of that file here?

Have you also doublechecked that there is no typo on the
name of the files (though I believe there would be some
alert if it was the case)

Cheers,

Eddy

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:10:23 -0700 (PDT)
 Maina M Noah <ncmaina2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Eddy,
> 
> i Actually have the zone 0.16.172.in.addr.arpa created in
> /etc/named.conf
> 
> i also have a corresponding zone file created for the
> above zone in /var/named directory.
> 
> However when i run dig -x the (ip address of a host in
> that zone), no PTR records are indicated.
>  e.g  dig -x 172.16.0.2 
> 
> i think there is something i am missing.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Kayihura M. Eddy <ekayihura at rwandatel.rw>
> To: Maina M Noah <ncmaina2001 at yahoo.com>; afnog at afnog.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:47:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [afnog] DNS Problem (PTR Records on
> different subnets fails)
> 
> Hi Maina,
> 
> We have reverse DNS working on a server which is in a
> different segment than the zones, so it should work.
> 
>  e.g.
> > 0.2.168.192.in.addr.arpa is zone for 
> > existing PTR records and new PTR record is on
> 172.16.0.0
> > subnet which is different ). 
> 
> In this case, I would recommend that you add a zone
> 0.16.172.in.addr.arpa in which you would create the PTR
> records for that block.
> 
> 
> > My question is, does an entire new zone have to be
> > created for this? 
> 
> So the answer to this is Yes.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eddy
> 
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