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

[Mohamadi ZONGO]

Hi,

2008/3/31, SM <sm at resistor.net>:
> Hi Stephane,
>
> At 02:17 31-03-2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>  >Bad advice. There is no reason to have only one nameserver in
>  >resolv.conf and it is not mandatory, far from it, that the local (same
>  >machine) nameserver is listed in resolv.conf.
>
>
> The above advice was only to debug the problem and not a recommended
>  practice for resolv.conf.
>
>  Once the problem is solved, we can have more than one nameserver.  We
>  should ensure that all the nameservers in resolv.conf can resolve
>  these PTR records as this specific case is about RFC1918 IP addresses.

OK, but for debug purpose (and less mistakes), i will rather recommend
using dig with its @ syntax like dig @name_server_ip and not rely on
resolv.conf

--mzongo

>
>  Regards,
>
> -sm
>
>
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