Search Again: Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 Time: 11:25:53 am Put dots on the ends of names that shouldn't end in the zone's name (233.20.212.in-addr.arpa.groovychocolate.com). For example, here's what happens with and without the dots: ns.groovychocolate.com. => ns.groovychocolate.com. ns.groovychocolate.com => ns.groovychocolate.com.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa.groovychocolate.com. There are a couple of upgrades available to you: Free: QuickDNS Pro Server 2.2.4, which fixes some serious crashing and spoofing bugs, is available here: <ftp://ftp.menandmice.com/pub/quickdns/old/QuickDNSPro2.2.4.sit.hqx> Paid: QuickDNS 4.6.1 is available for Mac OS X, as well as other operating systems, but not for classic Mac OS. <http://www.menandmice.com/3000/3230_order_quickdns_mac.html> Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy At 11:41 AM +0000 1/19/05, Stuart Douglas wrote: >Hi > >I changed the name of the primary domain 0.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa >to 233.20.212.in-addr.arpa.groovychocolate.com as suggested but that >meant that the phrase '233.20.212.in-addr.arpa.groovychocolate.com ' >was added to every Parameter, both in the Domain information and >Domain Window. forinstance, in the Domain Informaiton window, the >'Primary' box was changed from > >ns.groovychocolate.com >to >ns.groovychocolate.com.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa.groovychocolate.com > >and 'Hostmaster' was changed from > >hostmaster.groovychocolate.com > >to > >hostmaster.groovychocolate.com.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa.groovychocolate.com. > >In the main Domain window, that made the PTR entry for our mailserver > >82.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa.groovychocolate PTR >mail.groovychocolate.com.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa.groovychocolate.com. > >which presumably isn't right. When I click on the Parameter 1 part >of each record to delete the >233.20.212.in-addr.arpa.groovychocolate.com. bit I can't - all it >let's me highlight and edit is the first mail.groovychocolate.com >part. > >Sorry if I'm being dense, but this side of things is all new to me... > >Also, we have QuickDNS Pro 2.2.1 - is there an upgrade? > >Stuart > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Subject: Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query >From: "Stuart Douglas" <stuart@groovychocolate.com> >Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:00:07 -0000 > > >At 3:28 PM +0000 11/9/04, Stuart Douglas wrote: >>From: "Men & Mice Support" <cbuxton@menandmice.com> >>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:46:00 -0800 >> >>>Setting up reverse DNS records isn't as straightforward as it sounds. >>>First, you must figure out if the reverse zone belongs to your server. >> >>>With a regular domain name, when you register the domain, it's >>>delegated to your server. A reverse zone must be similarly delegated, >>>but "registration" is typically handled with your ISP rather than >>>with a central registrar. >> >>>I looked up the PTR record delegation for ns.groovychocolate.com. The >>>ednet.co.uk servers do in fact delegate your reverse records to your >>>server. The zone name (called "domain name" in QuickDNS Pro 2.x) is: >> >>>233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. >> >>>Creative, and perfectly legal. You don't even need to separate these >>>into a reverse zone if you don't want to - just create records like >>>this for each of your IP addresses: >> >>>82.233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. PTR mail.groovychocolate.com. >> >>Ah, I was doing fine until this point Chris - our mail server and >>Quick DNS are both on the 82 box, so I've already got a record : >> >>82.233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. PTR ns.groovychocolate.com >> >>Is it allowable to have both records, ie: >> >>82.233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. PTR mail.groovychocolate.com >>82.233.20.212.in-addr.groovychocolate.com. PTR ns.groovychocolate.com > >It's not against the rules, but it's a bad idea in this case. You >should have just the one pointing to mail.groovychocolate.com. > >I thought I;d done this right after your help, but today when one of our >users tried to mail someone at easy.com they got a bounce back from the >email admin there saying that we did not in fact have Reverse DNS setup for >our mail server. > >The situation with our DNS server (which I took over responsibility for when >our CTO left) is as follows: > >We have two Primary Domains set up, > >groovychocolate.com >0.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa > >Our mail server and DNS server both reside on a mac cube with IP >212.20.233.82. In the Primary Domain groovychocolate.com, we have (amongst >others) these records > >groovychocolate.com NS ns.groovychocolate.com >groovychocolate.com MX 10 mail.groovychocolate.com >mail.groovychocolate.com A 212.20.233.82 >ns.groovychocolate.com A 212.20.233.82 >web.groovychocolate.com CNAME ns.groovychocolate.com > >and in the Primary Domain 0.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa we have the following >entries: > >82.0.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa PTR mail.groovychocolate.com > >I'm not entirely sure why there is a zero in the 0.233.20.212.in-addr.arpa >domain, but presumably that's required since it's always been there? > >Could someone suggest what we need to add (a CNAME to groovychocolate.com >perhaps?) > >Regards > >Stuart > > >D

Messages In This Thread: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Nov 8, 2004 at 7:06:06 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Nov 8, 2004 at 9:48:05 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Nov 9, 2004 at 7:28:43 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Nov 9, 2004 at 1:58:12 pm Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Nov 11, 2004 at 9:13:07 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Nov 11, 2004 at 9:37:42 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Jan 17, 2005 at 8:01:02 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Jan 17, 2005 at 11:48:15 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Jan 19, 2005 at 3:42:42 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Jan 19, 2005 at 11:25:53 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Stuart Douglas on Jan 21, 2005 at 8:51:36 am Re: Setting Up Reverse DNS Query by Men & Mice Support on Jan 21, 2005 at 10:15:33 am