Re: internal network PTR records, necessary?

2013-08-14 Thread Chris Thompson
On Aug 14 2013, SM wrote: Hi James, At 19:06 13-08-2013, James Chase wrote: I noticed if I do a reverse lookup on an internal IP it seems to reference an iana server. Do we have a misconfiguration to be going out there for an answer? Could it be that this iana server was not responding

Re: internal network PTR records, necessary?

2013-08-14 Thread James Chase
Thanks for the help figuring out where to direct my research! I'll check all those sources out. Really appreciate it On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Aug 14 2013, SM wrote: Hi James, At 19:06 13-08-2013, James Chase wrote: I noticed if I do a

internal network PTR records, necessary?

2013-08-13 Thread James Chase
This isn't a problem with bind, that I'm aware of but I was hoping someone could shed a little DNS expertise on a situation that happened Monday morning. I'll be very brief: We started experiencing problems with connectivity from our application servers to a couple database servers. I narrowed the

Re: internal network PTR records, necessary?

2013-08-13 Thread SM
Hi James, At 19:06 13-08-2013, James Chase wrote: I noticed if I do a reverse lookup on an internal IP it seems to reference an iana server. Do we have a misconfiguration to be going out there for an answer? Could it be that this iana server was not responding monday morning? See RFC 6303