Martin Hejl wrote:
>
> today, I successfully set up a Dachstein box. On the router, I'm running
> tinydns and dnscache to replace our (private) DNS server (which was Bind - I
> guess I don't need to tell anybody why I wanted to switch).
>
> Thanks to Jacques' excellent documentation, setting tinydns up was pretty
> simple (except for the part below).
>
> One thing that took us quite a while was to figure out why reverse lookups
> didn't work on the internal net. The way we finally got it to work was to
> declare all entries in /etc/tinydns-private/root/data as PTRs.
>
> For example
> =example1.private.network:192.168.1.1
> instead of
> +example1.private.network:192.168.1.1
>
> Now, my question is, is that actually correct? If so, I guess it would be a
> good idea to add a reference to that to the docs (I know there's a PTR in
> the sample, but since that referred to the router name, we assumed that
> there was something special about that - remember, I'm surely a "DNS
> newbie").
>
> And if I'm wrong with my guess, I'd appreciate any ideas or suggestions on
> how to make reverse lookups work "properly".
Look here:
<http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html>
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