Yeah, that was on my mind as well, but thats far from being an Easy solution as you need to do a complete BIND setup.
So i guess the final answer is: There is no easy solution (afaik imho). :-D
Read ya, Phil
Rich Smrcina wrote:
I have a customer that runs BIND on Linux for S/390 as a slave DNS server to the main windows DNS server(s). The zones are replicated to the slave every so often. This way, a DNS request is satisfied over the Guest LAN instead of hitting the 'real' network.
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 10:14, Phil Knirsch wrote:
Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote:
Is there any method of allowing Linux to perform reverse DNS lookups using the /etc/hosts file or some other file? I currently have the interface addresses in /etc/hosts but now have a requirement to perform a reverse name lookup. I use an external DNS as well but that is under another department?s control. I need more specific control in case an interface goes down. Thanks.
Do you mean a real reverse DNS lookup? If yes, then it's really tricky as you need to "simulate" a root server that can do that as reverse DNS lookups always use the in-addr.arpa domain:
Looking up e.g.
192.168.200.3
results in a real DNS query to
3.200.168.192.in-addr.arpa
So your DNS server needs to provide that information directly. There might be ways around this problem, but i am not aware of any easy solutions, sorry.
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