Search Again: Reverse DNS options From: Jim Cobb Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 Time: 6:40:24 am I have discovered another issue with 4.5 which was not a problem with 4.02. We have a set of "public" DNS server outside of our NAT'ed firewall. We also have a set of "private" DNS server internal to our firewall. We use one copy of DNS central to mange both sets. You always had to be careful to exclude the appropriate servers when doing updates. But now QDNS central will sometimes not give the dialog box as to which servers to apply changes to. Even worse when you do a "create reverse zones" using the wizard, it replaces the extensive list of reverse addresses from our abbreviated external DNS server, wiping out several hundred reverse records. And even worse when you do a restore from a backup (which had all the correct information) it uses the external lists (I have no idea where QDNS gets this list) PLUS it modifies your backup and wipes out all the main and reverse records there, too! Thank God I had an excel spreadsheet with all the entire set of internal DNS info I could copy and paste into our primary server but I still cannot get the reverse to mirror the internal list! I will be damned if I am going to do the reverse stuff all manually. I will have to take my Excel spreadsheet and figure out an calculation to do this and then paste in the reverse delegation, something 4.02 would do with no problem. I assume the solution to this issue is to have separate QDNS Central server for our internal and external DNS servers, which sucks as I did not need to do this before... What on earth is going on? Jim Cobb Net Mgr LifeNet

Messages In This Thread: Reverse DNS options by Jim Cobb on Apr 15, 2003 at 6:40:24 am Re: Reverse DNS options by Len Conrad on Apr 16, 2003 at 9:51:00 am Re: Reverse DNS options by Men & Mice Support on Apr 16, 2003 at 9:57:51 am Re: Reverse DNS options by Men & Mice Support on Apr 16, 2003 at 10:05:33 am