From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 11:56:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA14128 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brimstone.gage.com (brimstone.gage.com [205.217.2.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA14123 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by brimstone.gage.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA04797; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:55:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: from octopus.gage.com(158.60.57.50) by brimstone.gage.com via smap (V2.0beta) id xma004795; Thu, 24 Oct 96 13:55:35 -0500 Received: from squid.gage.com (squid [158.60.57.101]) by octopus.gage.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18613; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:49:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from schemer by squid.gage.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA14296; Thu, 24 Oct 96 13:56:20 -0500 Message-Id: <9610241856.AA14296@squid.gage.com> Received: by schemer.gage.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0X) id AA03147; Thu, 24 Oct 96 13:56:49 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) In-Reply-To: <199610241657.MAA25638@doorman.brann.org> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.146.2) From: Ben Black Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 13:56:46 -0500 To: John Brann Subject: Re: DNS setup question Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) References: <199610241657.MAA25638@doorman.brann.org> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I am having trouble with the reverse resolution (i.e. converting my >IP address back into the hostname). All the examples I have are based on >converting whole networks, is there something different about the '.rev' >file when only resolving one address? > you can't do it. DNS currently has no support for classless addressing so blocks smaller than a class C cannot be delegated. your provider will have to handle the reverse DNS for you. b3n