From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 08:13:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA14315 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA14308 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0v8SzS-00093RC; Wed, 2 Oct 96 08:13 PDT Message-Id: From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Subject: Nameserver question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:13:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I got the following question from the hostmaster of my ISP, and I don't know the answer; I'm running stock named, and as far as I know, you don't have to do anything special to get it to return address records to go with the NS records --- I don't have anything different for the satisfied.apocalypse.org record. I'm guessing that one of two things is happening: 1. nslookup isn't bothering to display the record, since it printed out the server/address at the start. This doesn't seem very likely, as it's just dumping out what it gets. 2. named isn't bothering to return the address record for itself, since you obviously have the ip address already. I think this is a bug, if that's the case, because you may have the ip address, but you don't necessarily have the name, and thus don't know that you have the ip address for ns.rdrop.com. It doesn't seem too serious as things are working, but I thought I'd ask... > Also, you might want to check into this: > > > set type=ns > > 210.2.199.in-addr.arpa. > > Server: ns.rdrop.com > > Address: 199.2.210.241 > > > > 210.2.199.in-addr.arpa nameserver = satisfied.apocalypse.org > > 210.2.199.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns.rdrop.com > > satisfied.apocalypse.org internet address = 192.48.232.24 > > It seems to me that the address of ns.rdrop.com should be returned > here also. -- Alan Batie ______ We're Starfleet officers: batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Weird is part of the job. +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Captain Janeway DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.