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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 1997 19:16:13 -0400
From:      Kevin Brown <kbrown@primelink.com>
To:        Eddie Fry <eddie@Wicked.eaznet.com>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: reverse DNS
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970814191610.0091a330@mail.primelink.com>

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At 04:32 PM 8/14/97 -0700, Eddie Fry wrote:
>
>If I go to a site with reverse DNS authentication from any server listed
in my in-addr.arpa file, no problem.  The problem occurs when a dial-in
user or a Win 95 machine on my network (but not listed in my named files)
tries to access one of these sites. 

Without a record in your in-addr.arpa.db, these hosts will not resolve
reverse. So to answer your question quickly... Yes.  Do unto one, as you
would the other.
IE:

;
; domain.com.db
;
blah
;
first-host	IN	A	10.10.1.6


then;

;
; 1.10.10.in-addr.arpa.db
;
blah
;

6	IN	PTR	first-host



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