From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 20:57:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47ABC37B876 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:57:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0993.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.253.228]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA28857; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00548; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:56:07 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Duke Normandin Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Sendmail and DNS Message-ID: <20000622205607.A489@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <009501bfdcc1$afc9cca0$47b10a40@odie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <009501bfdcc1$afc9cca0$47b10a40@odie>; from dnormandin@freewwweb.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:58:49PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:58:49PM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote: [snip] > Would you know of a web reference that would explain the diff. > between dns / reverse-dns. I'm also assuming that > lookups / reverse-lookups refer to the same thing. Tia... Yes and no. You need a different set of records to do reverse-lookups, but the basic principles are the same. You have an entry like, zone "57.177.205.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "57.177.05.rev"; }; In named.conf and records that look like, 156 IN PTR scully.gothwolrd.com. This. As for docs, DNS is a tricky beast. I assume you've been to www.isc.org? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message