From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 12:52: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (t3-d-static-237.adsl.directlink.net [63.68.131.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 330CD37B424 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 12:52:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brune@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: (from brune@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f43JpYp11288; Thu, 3 May 2001 19:51:34 GMT Message-Id: <200105031951.f43JpYp11288@sdf.lonestar.org> Subject: Re: BIND Issues To: ajh3@chmod.ath.cx (Andrew Hesford) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 19:51:34 +0000 (UTC) From: "Corey Brune" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-questions) In-Reply-To: <20010502171533.A36461@cec.wustl.edu> from "Andrew Hesford" at May 02, 2001 05:15:33 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You will need to have a reverse entry. In your named.conf the entry will look like: zone "0.0.0.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "path/to/the/file"; }; and inside the reverse file the entry should look like: 000 PTR nameofyourserver of course 000 will be the last bit of your IP. Hope this helps, Corey Andrew Hesford > > I'm using whatever version of BIND is in the contrib branch of the main > FreeBSD source tree, cvsup'ed a few days ago. > > I have no reverse DNS entry for myself. I have a zone file which maps a > bunch of 192.168.1.0/0xffffff00 addresses to host names, and when I use > nslookup or host on the name, it finds the address. However, nslookup on > the address fails to find a hostname. > > This is causing all sorts of login hell using telnet on my private > network. How can I make sure my server will respond to reverse DNS > queries? > > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message