From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 15 2:54: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laurasia.com.au (lauras.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3F214EF7 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 02:54:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@laurasia.com.au) Received: (from mike@localhost) by laurasia.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id SAA23607; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:48:46 +0800 (WST) From: Michael Kennett Message-Id: <199911151048.SAA23607@laurasia.com.au> Subject: Re: DNS (was: DNS & Virtual hosting) In-Reply-To: <382FD9B2.985E8A8B@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> from Richard Morte at "Nov 15, 99 10:00:18 am" To: ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk (Richard Morte) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:48:45 +0800 (WST) Cc: papalia@udel.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] 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 > John > > Have you tried running nslint? It usually picks up very well on > configuration errors. There are a few occasions when you may not want > reverse mapping (IP address ==> Name); for instance, we have an Apache > server on our FreebSD box, configured for name-virtual hosting. All the > names of the virtual domains share the same IP address, so we have a > zone that provides this mapping, but no reverse mapping (ie no PTR > records). > > nslint complains about the fact that there are no PTR records for our > 'Apache' domains, but this is nslint being too conservative in this > instance. > > Recommend you try it! (Apologies if you already have!) I'd never heard of nslint before. It looks like a good little tool. For the record, it can be found in the ports collection (/usr/ports/net/nslint) Regards, Mike Kennett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message