> 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"). This is correct. +example1.private.network:192.168.1.1 only creates a A record =example1.private.network:192.168.1.1 creates a A and a PTR record Your PTR record shows example1.private.network as the name of 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa if ip is 192.168.1.1 You definitively need it for reverse DNS. Jacques
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