reverse DNS resolution...
Bill Campbell
freebsd at celestial.com
Mon Oct 22 16:17:18 PDT 2007
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Eric F Crist wrote:
>Hey folks,
>
>We're trying to get reverse DNS resolution for a block of IPs
>(private). We've had the 10.x network working great at the office
>for quite some time now, but I'm having a problem getting the
>172.30.x network to work.
>
>Typing 'host <ip>' returns a valid result, however output from who,
>as well as other network services (IRC, apache) only see the IP. Is
>there something I'm missing?
You will have to set up local DNS configuration for private
addresses, including the appropriate in-addr.arpa. PTR records.
The exact file format depends on what DNS software you're using,
bind, djbdns, etc.
Bill
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