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Re: Inverse DNS screwed up?

From: Mia''s Virtual Post Office
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Time: 4:51:00 pm

Men & Mice Support said:

>At 12:07 AM -0600 12/17/99, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote:
>>Just curious, I noticed pretty much all the reverse dns records on our
>>206.190.23.* subnet have disappeared. Basically they're just reversing to
>>the name of the ip instead of the name of the actual host.
>>
>>Name: 204.192.23.190.206.in-addr.arpa
>>Address: 206.190.23.204
>>
>>should reverse to home.mia.net
>
>And it does:
>
>Answer:
> 204.23.190.206.in-addr.arpa. CNAME
> 204.192.23.190.206.in-addr.arpa.
> 204.192.23.190.206.in-addr.arpa. PTR home.mia.net.
>
>Authority:
> 192.23.190.206.in-addr.arpa. NS homer.alpha.net.
> 192.23.190.206.in-addr.arpa. NS helen.alpha.net.
> 192.23.190.206.in-addr.arpa. NS jer.mia.net.
>
>Additional:
> homer.alpha.net. A 156.46.10.10
> helen.alpha.net. A 156.46.10.20
> jer.mia.net. A 206.190.23.194
>
>I notice that your server (jer.mia.net) has some bad data in its
>cache, data which should have been purged by now. Here's the current
>data:
>
>23.190.206.in-addr.arpa. 86400 SOA homer.alpha.net.
> manager.alpha.net.
> 1999121501 ; serial
> 10800 ; refresh (3 hours)
> 3600 ; retry (1 hour)
> 604800 ; expire (7 days)
> 86400 ; minimum (1 day)
>
>Here's what your server has cached:
>
>23.190.206.in-addr.arpa. 31502 SOA homer.alpha.net.
> manager.alpha.net.
> 1999121500 ; serial
> 10800 ; refresh (3 hours)
> 3600 ; retry (1 hour)
> 604800 ; expire (7 days)
> 86400 ; minimum (1 day)
>
>Note the difference in serial numbers. Your server also has this cached:
>204.23.190.206.in-addr.arpa. 20253 PTR
> 204.192.23.190.206.in-addr.arpa.
>
>This record no longer exists on the authoritative servers (homer and
>helen at your ISP). Looks like your ISP did something stupid on
>Wednesday, then fixed it. This should clear up momentarily.

Yep.. Was our upscale. We had emailed them shortly before email the
list, and they did a bit of finger tripping.. Alls well now.

thanx!

jer

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