From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 19:54:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1D214E4F for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:54:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA24778; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:51:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:51:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John To: Dan Busarow Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reverse DNS lookup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The question - is there something that needs to be configured some place > > to enable reverse DNS? Odds are I need to provide additional information > > off my system - just let me know what it is :) > > Send the output of > > $ nslookup 206.16.184.7 Output is actually a timeout after about 60 seconds or so: merlin# nslookup 206.16.184.7 Server: copland.udel.edu Address: 128.175.xx.xx *** Request to copland.udel.edu timed-out I tried instead an IP I've actually been having trouble resolving: merlin# nslookup 63.224.53.3 Server: copland.udel.edu Address: 128.175.xx.xx *** copland.udel.edu can't find 63.224.53.3: Non-existent host/domain "copland" is the name of the first DNS in my file. It apparently doesn't query the second DNS in my file? > Make sure it really is using the servers you have specified in > /etc/resolv.conf See above - it queries #1 in the list, but not #2 (or so it seems). My /etc/resolv.conf is: search udel.edu nameserver 128.175.xx.xx nameserver 128.175.yy.yy Hopefully all that might answer some q's? Thanks again!!! --John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message