Search Again: Re: Which way is best-Reverse From: Men & Mice Support Date: Monday, January 24, 2005 Time: 11:51:36 am The name of your reverse zone (for a subnet smaller than a class C, and even occasionally for larger subnets) is arbitrarily defined by your ISP. Do whatever they say. In this case, atgi.net has defined your reverse zone name as panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. So your PTR record should look like this: 70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. PTR some.canonical.name. It currently looks like this: 70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. PTR panavise.com. So that looks fine (at least on the surface - I can't say whether that's the correct canonical name [panavise.com.] to use in this case). Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy At 11:20 AM -0800 1/24/05, Gary Richter wrote: >Been following the thread on reverse records recently, and might be >confused a touch. Just upgraded ns1 and ns2 to OSX QDNS Bind 9.3.0 >with the -4 mod. > >In the past (under classic) we had our reverse records set like this >for an A record of 216.210.202.70 > >70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. PTR panavise.com > > >dnsstuff.com doing a reverse check returns: > > > >Looking up at the 2 202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. parent servers: >ns1.atgi.net [216.174.194.53] > 70.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa.->70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. >panavise.com. >ns2.atgi.net [216.174.194.54] > 70.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa.->70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. >panavise.com > > >Asking i.root-servers.net for 70.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa PTR record: > i.root-servers.net says to go to figwort.arin.net. (zone: >216.in-addr.arpa.) >Asking figwort.arin.net. for 70.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa PTR record: > figwort.arin.net [192.42.93.32] says to go to ns1.atgi.net. >(zone: 202.210.216.in-addr.arpa.) >Asking ns1.atgi.net. for 70.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa PTR record: >Got CNAME referral to ns1.atgi.net. (zone >70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa.) [from 216.174.194.53] >Asking ns1.atgi.net. for 70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. PTR record: > ns1.atgi.net [216.174.194.53] says to go to ns1.panavise.com. >(zone: panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa.) >Asking ns1.panavise.com. for 70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. >PTR record: Got NODATA response type 3 [from 216.210.202.66]. >Answer: >There is no PTR record for 70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. >(but 70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. is valid). >-------- > >It says there is no PTR record but it says >70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa. is valid > >My recollection is that atgi.net is the one that directed us to use >70.panavise.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa vs what the recent thread makes >me believe it might need to be changed to >70.202.210.216.in-addr.arpa instead. > >comments >=============================================== >Gary Richter, President > PanaVise Products, Inc. > 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 > Ph: 775.850.2900 Fx: 775.850.2929 > Email: grichter@panavise.com > http://www.panavise.com >===============================================

Messages In This Thread: Which way is best-Reverse by Gary Richter on Jan 24, 2005 at 11:21:54 am Re: Which way is best-Reverse by Men & Mice Support on Jan 24, 2005 at 11:51:36 am