On 1/31/02 3:18 PM, "Global Homes Webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
[snipped]
> 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?
While it seems to work for names with single A records (see below), I have
no idea how it would handle multiple A records. It's covered in the
documentation, but I don't have that here.
> 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.
I totally agree. I use MacDNS for non-critical DNS and my ISP handles
backups on multiple servers. When we handled it at my last company, we used
QuickDNSPro, which was much more robust, if a bit more complicated to use.
>> 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.
Well, it looks like it does that successfully. (I think I've got it right.):
[localhost:~] techno% nslookup
Default Server: ns1.megapath.net
Address: 216.200.176.4
> set norecurse
> set type=ptr
> server morganadesign.com
Default Server: morganadesign.com
Address: 207.106.63.65
> 207.106.63.65
Server: morganadesign.com
Address: 207.106.63.65
65.63.106.207.in-addr.arpa name = morganadesign.com
morganadesign.com internet address = 207.106.63.65
> 207.106.63.66
Server: morganadesign.com
Address: 207.106.63.65
66.63.106.207.in-addr.arpa name = router1.morganadesign.com
router1.morganadesign.com internet address = 207.106.63.66
> exit
[localhost:~] techno%
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