On 01/31/02 at 14:44, Timothy Binder wrote:
> On 1/31/02 2:13 PM, "Global Homes Webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > One of MacDNS' many failings is that it does not do reverse DNS. You
> > should talk to whoever is responsible for your reverse DNS (probably
> > your ISP -- looks like neonet.bc.ca.?) and get them to add
> > appropriate records for the IP
>
> While there are a number of issues with MacDNS, I'm pretty sure that it
> _does_ reverse DNS, but only for IP addresses that it knows about through
> forward entries.
It's been quite a while since I last used MacDNS, so I could easily be
mistaken, but I could have sworn that it doesn't do reverse DNS. Getting
reverse info from existing 'forward' entries would be unreliable at best -- if
you've got multiple A records pointing to the same IP address (a fairly common
occurence), which name do you use for the address's reverse?
> I think the problem here is that he's not the authority for the IP
> block.
That certainly may be a part of the problem. The real problem is that he needs
to find out who does have authority for the reverse zone and either get them
to add the necessary records to their name servers or to delegate authority
for the zone to his name server so that he can add the records himself. Since
he's using MacDNS, the former option is probably the better one.
> From what I've tried on my MacDNS server, it does seem to be doing reverse,
> but I'd be happy to try anything you might suggest to test this. (I'm a DNS
> amateur, not a pro.)
To test it, query your name server non-recursively for a PTR record for one of
your addresses.
Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmaster, Global Homes | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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