[lug] DNS Reverse Lookups

[John Starkey]

Yeah. If i'm following you correctly you need to contact your ISP and have
them config the reverse. (as one list guru explained to me a few months
ago).

John



On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Well, I read up a bit on DNS today.  Got DNS working on my machines as I 
> want, with the exception of reverse lookups.  I have 2 ips, 
> 208.203.138.147 208.203.138.148 with a netmask of 255.255.255.192
> which gives a network address of 208.203.138.128 and bcast of
> 208.203.138.192.  I think I am being bitten by the fact that I don't have
> a whole class 'C' network.  I started to read the rfc2317 
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2317.txt to find a work around, but it is 
> a bit hard to get a hold of.  
> 
> Anyone else have a named config that deals with this issue?  Mind sharing.
> Can't quite figure the black magic out
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tim
>