dns
Marcel Kunath
kunathma@pilot.msu.edu
Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:41:23 -0400 (EDT)
Yes, that was it. I thought the numbering of the pointer was just a simple
number. But it's not. It's the last part of the IP. duh. The howto was only
using nicely ordered IP numbers so I never noticed the relationship.
mk
> > I'm not an expert,
but I think that you want your '1' to be '240'
so > that you have 144.132.217.240. Do you have working right yet? If not,
> try that.
> Good luck,
> -Cory
>
> Marcel Kunath wrote:
> >
> > I just can't see a mistake.
> >
> > ip is 144.132.217.240
> >
> > named.conf:
> > zone "217.132.144.in-addr.arpa" {
> > notify no;
> > type master;
> > file "pz/144.132.217";
> > };
> >
> > /var/named/pz/144.132.217:
> > @ IN SOA mail.mydomain.com. kunathma.msu.edu. (
> > 200007181 ; Serial, todays date + todays serial
> > 8H ; Refresh
> > 2H ; Retry
> > 1W ; Expire
> > 1D) ; Minimum TTL
> > NS mail.mydomain.com.
> > 1 PTR mail.mydomain.com.
> >
> > then it should use pointer 1 to look up mail.mydomain.com
> >
> > It goes to /var/named/pz/mydomain.com:
> >
> > ;start
> > @ IN SOA mail.mydomain.com. kunathma.msu.edu. (
> > 200007181 ; serial, todays date + todays seria
l #
> > 8H ; refresh, seconds
> > 2H ; retry, seconds
> > 1W ; expire, seconds
> > 1D ) ; minimum, seconds
> > ;
> > NS mail.mydomain.com. ; Inet Address of name server
> > MX 10 mail ; Primary Mail Exchanger
> > ;
> > localhost A 127.0.0.1
> >
> > mail A 144.132.217.240 ;this is pointer 1 destination
> > MX 10 mail
> > HINFO "Pentium" "Linux 2.2"
> > www CNAME mail
> > ;end
> >
> > I don't see how there is anything wrong.
> >
> > mk
> >
> > >
> > > Don't you want to be mapping y.x.w.in-addr.arpa. ?? (if the IP of
> > > mail.mydomain.com is w.x.y.z)
> > >
> > > What does your zone look like in named.conf? It should probably look
> > > something like this (I think)...
> > >
> > > zone "y.x.w.in-addr.arpa" {
> > > type master;
> > > file "pri/y.x.w.in-addr.arpa.db";
> > > };
> > >
> > > What do you think? Wasn't someone going to do a talk on DNS and BIND
> > > soon anyway?
> > >
> > > -Cory Spitz
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Marcel Kunath wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am experimenting with bind8. I follow the straight forward howto and I
do
> > > > have
> > > > lookup working. I followed the howto stricly and triple checked but I ca
n't
> > get
> > > > reverse lookup to work.
> > > >
> > > > Here is my reverse lookup zone. I did check that the file name is correc
t
> > > > according to what is pointed to by named.conf zone.
> > > >
> > > > ;
> > > > ; zone file for reverse lookup
> > > > ;
> > > > @ IN SOA mail.mydomain.com. kunathma.msu.edu. (
> > > > 200007181 ; Serial, todays date + todays serial
> > > > 8H ; Refresh
> > > > 2H ; Retry
> > > > 1W ; Expire
> > > > 1D) ; Minimum TTL
> > > > NS mail.mydomain.com.
> > > >
> > > > 1 PTR mail.mydomain.com.
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to do reverse lookup on the machine which is running the nam
eser
> > ver
> > > > and called mail.mydomain.com Shouldn't this work? I use localhost as
> > > > nameserver.
> > > >
> > > > mk
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> > >
> >
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