Re: Newbie: in-addr.arpa file for a C Class

bela@webnet-x.com (belacyrf) wrote:

> Heres my confusion. In our DNS server for block 216.X.X we have this
> file:

Are you sure this is the file that is specified in named.conf
for the x.x.216.in-addr.arpa zone? You aren't for example using
a chroot setup and looking at a different file?

> So obviously if I lookup .10 in this block, I get the associated
> domain. The odd thing is, when I look up an IP that does not have a
> PTR record I get:
>
>
> Name: wsip-216-X-X-9.sub.mydomain.net
> Address: 216.231.10.9

Oooh what a give-away! So are you actually talking about
10.231.216.in-addr.arpa, hosted on {ns1,ns2}.coxmail.com?

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