>I'm getting off topic here, please forgive me, but when I tried to go to
>www.complex.is all I get is a white page with black text saying:
>
>"
>Your IP address (208.170.56.139) could not be resolved to a valid hostname.
>Please ask your sysadmin to fix this in the DNS and try again.
>"
>
>208.170.56.139 is one of my proxy servers. What does this mean?

# dig -x 208.170.56.139

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> -x
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      139.56.170.208.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
139.56.170.208.in-addr.arpa.  1H IN CNAME  208.170.56.139.infogiant.com.

I guess complex is looking for a PTR record and not a CNAME.

check with a contact at complex.is

Len


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