From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 16:49:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4127616A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:49:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beastie.hyow.eu.org (beastie.hyow.eu.org [213.152.46.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616FD43D1F for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:49:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@hyow.eu.org) Received: (qmail 16989 invoked by uid 751); 29 Dec 2004 16:52:00 +0000 Received: from mark@hyow.eu.org by beastie.hyow.eu.org by uid 731 with qmail-scanner-1.22-st-qms Clear:RC:0(10.0.0.11):SA:0(-2.8/5.0):. Processed in 12.886944 secs); 29 Dec 2004 16:52:00 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-HYOW.EU.ORG-Mail-From: mark@hyow.eu.org via beastie.hyow.eu.org X-Antivirus-HYOW.EU.ORG: 1.22-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(10.0.0.11):SA:0(-2.8/5.0):. Processed in 12.886944 secs Process 16976) Received: from deity.hyow.eu.org (mark@hyow.eu.org@10.0.0.11) by beastie.hyow.eu.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Dec 2004 16:51:47 +0000 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:49:56 +0000 From: Mark Magiera To: Mipam Message-Id: <20041229164956.14b778a8.mark@hyow.eu.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.99-gtk2-20041024 (GTK+ 2.4.14; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i'm lost in named trouble. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:49:45 -0000 On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:00:04 +0100 (MET) Mipam wrote: > Hi, > > I configured plenty of nameservers also with bind9, but this time > i cannot figure out what's wrong anymore, i'm lost. > When i do host 127.0.0.1, i get a normal answer. > When i do host localhost, i get a normal answer. > When i do dig localhost, i get a normal answer. > When i do dig 127.0.0.1, i get no answer and i keep waiting .... :-( The reason you get no answer at all is beacuse you've not setup bind to forward unresolved queries to other dns servers. Even then you wouldn't get the answer you expect because you're using the wrong command. > > [snip] > > So dig asks an A record, and host ask a PTR record. > Can anybody tell me what is wrong with my config? > I don't know anymore how to resolve the issue with dig 127.0.0.1 > anymore. What am i doing wrong?? You're just trying to check if rDNS is working, right? If so, with dig, the command to check rDNS is either `dig -x 127.0.0.1` or `dig 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa` > Bye, > > Mipam. -- Mark Magiera