Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-26 Thread John Bond
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: When i tried this host did not resolve the cname. i.e a host 1.1.1.1 returned metis.local. it did not know to resolve metis.local as bob the host 1.1.1.1 returned that 1.1.1.1.in-addr.arpa is a CNAME to

RE: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-26 Thread Ben Bridges
-Original Message- [ ... ] On 23.01.09 23:06, Barry Margolin wrote: Why don't you just use normal reverse DNS: zone for 1.1.1.in-addr.arpa 1 IN PTR metis.local. IN PTR bob-www-sol-l01.local. accorging to the above, metis.local is a CNAME, so the reverse should

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-25 Thread John Bond
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Barry Margolin bar...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Why don't you just use normal reverse DNS: zone for 1.1.1.in-addr.arpa 1 IN PTR metis.local. IN PTR bob-www-sol-l01.local. I read there were problems having 2 PTR records for the same ip. I know its in the RFC but

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: if metis.local is a CNAME, the PTR shouldn't point to it. On 25.01.09 10:14, John Bond wrote: could you please explain this. Although it's good to remove irelevant part of the text you are replying to, this

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
In article gld0if$3c...@sf1.isc.org, John Bond john.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: My idea was to create records like the following zone for .local bob-www-sol-l01 IN A 1.1.1.1 metisIN CNAME bob-www-sol-l01 zone for 1.1.1 1

reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-23 Thread John Bond
Hello All, Sorry for the bad subject but i wasn't really sure how i could best describe my circumstances. I would like to ask anyone out there if something im proposing to implment is incorrect or just plain stupid. Ok so the situation is that we have one set of developers who like to call there

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-23 Thread Barry Margolin
In article gld0if$3c...@sf1.isc.org, John Bond john.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Sorry for the bad subject but i wasn't really sure how i could best describe my circumstances. I would like to ask anyone out there if something im proposing to implment is incorrect or just plain