DNS name lookup not what I expect

Re: DNS name lookup not what I expect

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>Thanks for the input on my previous IP address change question.
>
>Now, when I do a DNS Name Lookup in AGNet Tools for my machine (web
>server..name server..Vicomsoft Softrouter) 207.26.206.185 the name
>actionfire.com is the result. Strange since this is one of my virtual
>domains hosted by Web*.
>
>I've asked my ISP if he knows why this happens and he says nothing on his
>end says anything about actionfire.com.
>
>I want it to return websurfhawaii.com. Any ideas?

I'm going to have to answer based on some conjectures, since your server is
currently unreachable (locked up?).

You have a zone file for 206.26.207.in-addr.arpa. In that file is the
following PTR record:

185.206.26.207.in-addr.arpa. PTR actionfire.com.

This explains the result you're seeing. However, there's another problem
here: When I do the reverse lookup using my DNS server here, I get a
completely different answer: pueo0185.lava.net.

The reason for this is that you don't have your reverse zone delegated to
you by lava.net. (In fact, they can't delegate it to you directly, since
it's delegated to them by ans.net. The best they can do is delegate part of
it to you, which is called a classless subnet delegation.)

Here are the delegation records relevant to your reverse zone, which will
explain how my server comes up with the answer it does:

From a root server (where all delegation starts):
26.207.in-addr.arpa. NS ns.ans.net.
26.207.in-addr.arpa. NS nis.ans.net.

From ns.ans.net:
206.26.207.in-addr.arpa. NS mochi.lava.net.
206.26.207.in-addr.arpa. NS malasada.lava.net.

From mochi.lava.net:
185.206.26.207.in-addr.arpa. PTR pueo0185.lava.net.

I hope this helps you understand the issue.
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