Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
NO REVERSE DNS QUREIES ANSWERED
Name: sessiontimedout Date: April 27, 2000 at 21:37:57 Pacific
Comment:
Hello, I am working at an small firm.We have a primary DNS server and a secondary DNS server in our Redhat Linux 6.1 box.The problem is that our DNS server is NOT ABLE TO ANSWER REVERSE DNS QUERIES FROM OUTSIDE OUR DOMAIN ie when i make the Reverse DNS query from any machine in our domain(to any machine in our domain,or any DNS machine outside) it is able to answer but if i do it form any DNS server outside our domain OUR DNS is not able to answer.That is,
suppose i connect to my ISP and give nslookup and query for my address x.y.z.a,our machine is not able to answer. Also note that i am running 4 domains on that same machine.all the four domains have their forward and reverse lookup files.The /etc/named.conf have entries for all the four domains.Also note that we are using the same IP address for the primary named server for all the domains.We have done no aliasing.
Summary: Its your /etc/resolv.conf i bet if u go to the comp in a web browser its instant, yeah? why? because your PC doesnt do a reverse DNS lookup on ur IP then... when u telnet/ftp into ur linux box, it'll ...
Summary: I have an AIX print server configured to allow anyone to print to it. The hosts.lpd file contains a "+" entry. Despite this, the lpd daemon insists on doing a reverse DNS lookup to get a hostname. ...
