Search Again: Re: QuickDNS 3.5 (Mac OS 9): Reverse lookup config From: Guy Jones Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 Time: 4:22:21 am You have to have your ISP delegate the reverse zone to you. If not, even if you have it configured correct on your server only when you use your server as your DNS on your local machine will it work. Guy at 12:51 PM +0200 on 10/12/04, Guido Neitzer wrote: >Hi. > >First: I'm not a DNS administrator and I only have basic knowledge on DNS >adminsitration - but now I have to solve a problem ... :-( > >We received a message that our mailservers IP address can't be resolved to >a valid hostname via reverse lookup. > >I tested this here: > >http://remote.12dt.com/rns/ > >IP Address 62.153.135.53 resolves to: >(unable to resolve 62.153.135.53) > >Seems to be so. Okay. > >When I try to do a reverse lookup from our local net (with our own >nameserver), everything seems fine: > >53.135.153.62.in-addr.arpa name = mail.apoexpress.de. > >How can I check, what's going wrong? How should a working configuration in >QuickDNS Manager look like? For us it's only important to have reverse >lookup for a few IP addresses. > >Maybe someone can give me screenshot of a correctly configured QuickDNS >server window with some IPs configured for reverse lookup. > >Thanks for any help. >cug -- Regards, Guy Jones _____________________________________________ The Nova Group <http://www.novaint.com > <mailto:guy.jones@novaint.com>

Messages In This Thread: QuickDNS 3.5 (Mac OS 9): Reverse lookup config by Guido Neitzer on Oct 12, 2004 at 3:54:43 am Re: QuickDNS 3.5 (Mac OS 9): Reverse lookup config by Guy Jones on Oct 12, 2004 at 4:22:21 am