Re: DNS reverse

Glynn Clements (glynn@sensei.co.uk)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:53:33 +0100 (BST)


Vincent S wrote:

> I have a network on the Internet with 2 DNS servers with authority on my
> domain (195.115.167.0).
> A friend of mine has an IP address 209.237.133.185 and asked to record his
> domain name "foo.com" (i don't know the name yet) on my DNS servers.
> No problem to resolve foo.com, i should put in my /etc/named.boot in my
> primary server :

> primary foo.com foo.com.zone

> and in the foo.com.zone file:

> foo.com IN A 209.237.133.185

Yep.

> But for the reverse resolution what should i write:
> 209.237.133.in-addr.arpa foo.com.rev.zone ???????????????
>
> How can this work ? Those network does not belong to me ? What can i do ?

You can't perform reverse DNS for him. Only the adminstrators of the
209.237.133.in-addr.arpa domain can do this.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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