From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 03:54:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532CB106566C for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:54:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: from wave.radel.com (wave.radel.com [216.143.151.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5808FC18 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:54:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.6) with PIPE id 10113413; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:54:39 -0400 Received: from [192.168.43.221] (account jon@radel.com HELO braeburn.local) by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 10113411 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:54:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4D9157FA.7070608@radel.com> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:54:34 -0400 From: Jon Radel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201103280506.p2S56S5i052834@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms090401050402090503030207" X-Radel.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Jon for more information X-Radel.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: reverse dns in bind9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:54:40 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms090401050402090503030207 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 3/28/11 11:36 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Now I could probably understand it FAILING due to perhaps a type-o in > the config. But I am genuinely curious as to how forward lookups will > work and reverse lookups time out. I would expect them to time out if your dns server knows nothing about=20 the reverse zone; give or take how you connect to the rest of the DNS.=20 What messages about zones loading did you get when you restarted bind?=20 Where there any crabby comments in the log file about not loading=20 master/summitnjhome-reverse.db due to error(s)? Was that file mentioned = at all? --Jon Radel jon@radel.com --------------ms090401050402090503030207--