[Pdns-users] reverse DNS almost working

lonnie at outstep.com lonnie at outstep.com
Fri Jul 8 23:18:18 UTC 2005


Hi All,

I have been working to set up my PTR records so that I can do
reverse DNS

But notice that it says that A record does not point back to the
orig IP when in fact I think I do have it pointing correctly in my
table.

mail.outstep.com A 205.177.75.35

the report gives
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How I am searching:
Asking a.root-servers.net for 35.75.177.205.in-addr.arpa PTR record:
       a.root-servers.net says to go to chia.arin.net. (zone:
205.in-addr.arpa.)
Asking chia.arin.net. for 35.75.177.205.in-addr.arpa PTR record:
       chia.arin.net [192.5.6.32] says to go to ns.cais.com. (zone:
177.205.in-addr.arpa.)
Asking ns.cais.com. for 35.75.177.205.in-addr.arpa PTR record:
       ns.cais.com [205.177.10.10] says to go to
rdns1.vrtservers.net. (zone: 75.177.205.in-addr.arpa.)
Asking rdns1.vrtservers.net. for 35.75.177.205.in-addr.arpa PTR record:
       rdns1.vrtservers.net [209.130.174.31] says to go to
ns1.peoplesquest.net. (zone: 35.75.177.205.in-addr.arpa.)
Asking ns1.peoplesquest.net. for 35.75.177.205.in-addr.arpa PTR
record:  Reports mail.outstep.com. [from 205.177.75.34]

Answer:
205.177.75.35 PTR record: mail.outstep.com. [TTL 3600s] [A=None]
*ERROR* A record does not point back to original IP.
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and nslookup 205.177.75.35 does show my mail.outstep.com correctly.

How to resolve this?

Cheers,

Lonnie Cumberland
OutStep Technologies Incorporated
CELL: 313-333-2935
FAX: 619-639-2888





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