Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
I'm in the process of setting up primary and secondary name servers. This is my first time setting up named so I'm kinda a newbie in this area. My question is in regards to in-addr.arpa entries in named.conf and zone files. In the FreeBSD Handbook and alot of other resources, I've noticed ho

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Victor Bondarenko
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:31:54AM -0700, James Earl wrote: [...] > Or, do I even need to worry about reverse DNS entries since my ISP > already has them setup? If your ISP has reverse DNS for your IP(s), there's really no point in you mapping them on your own. Your network might see whatever yo

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Jaime
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, James Earl wrote: > Or, do I even need to worry about reverse DNS entries since my ISP > already has them setup? They have probably done the reverse lookup already. IIRC, the reverse DNS for a single IP address can not be handed off to you by the ISP without some inte

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 27-Mar-2003, James Earl wrote message "Reverse DNS and single IP address space" ~ > Or, do I even need to worry abou

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
On 2003.03.27 11:38 Victor Bondarenko wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:31:54AM -0700, James Earl wrote: [...] > Or, do I even need to worry about reverse DNS entries since my ISP > already has them setup? If your ISP has reverse DNS for your IP(s), there's really no point in you mapping them on yo

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Jaime
> I'm assuming if I can use nslookup [ip-address] to get my hostname, > that reverse DNS on the ISP is setup properly. Is this an okay > assumption? If you know enough about nslookup, then yes. I'd suggest "host -v 1.2.3.4", though. Its a bit easier. :)

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ~ On 27-Mar-2003, James Earl wrote message "Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space" ~ > I'm assuming if I can use ns

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Victor Bondarenko
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:52:04AM -0700, James Earl wrote: [...] > I'm assuming if I can use nslookup [ip-address] to get my hostname, > that reverse DNS on the ISP is setup properly. Is this an okay > assumption? Most likely, yes. Just to be safe, I would do something like nslookup [ip-addr

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, James Earl wrote: > On 2003.03.27 11:38 Victor Bondarenko wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:31:54AM -0700, James Earl wrote: > > [...] > > > Or, do I even need to worry about reverse DNS entries since my ISP > > > already has them setup? > > > > If your ISP has reverse DNS

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
Thanks for the help everyone! From your suggestions, it appears reverse DNS is setup properly. Now if only my ISP could provide as good of support, as all of you provided me! :) James ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
Thanks for the help everyone! From your suggestions, it appears reverse DNS is setup properly. Now if only my ISP could provide as good of support, as all of you provided me! :) James ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 11:31:54 -0700, James Earl wrote: > I'm in the process of setting up primary and secondary name servers. > This is my first time setting up named so I'm kinda a newbie in this > area. > > My question is in regards to in-addr.arpa entries in named.conf and > zone files.

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Victor Bondarenko
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:20:34AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { > > type slave; > > file "s/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak"; > > masters { > > 192.168.1.1; > > }; > > }; > > This is a slave entry. It would be more interesting to see

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 17:10:13 -0800, Victor Bondarenko wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:20:34AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { >>> type slave; >>> file "s/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak"; >>> masters { >>> 192.168.1.1; >>> }

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
AIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:20:34AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { > > > type

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-28 Thread Jaime
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 07:50 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Is that easier than "nslookup 1.2.3.4"? Oops! I forgot that nslookup has a command line more. I usually use it when I want an interactive mode. :) Unfortunately, most of it was wrong :-( To be fair, the question was lacki