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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:54:34 -0400
From:      Jon Radel <jon@radel.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reverse dns in bind9
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On 3/28/11 11:36 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:

> Now I could probably understand it FAILING due to perhaps a type-o in
> the config. But I am genuinely curious as to how forward lookups will
> work and reverse lookups time out.

I would expect them to time out if your dns server knows nothing about=20
the reverse zone; give or take how you connect to the rest of the DNS.=20
What messages about zones loading did you get when you restarted bind?=20
Where there any crabby comments in the log file about not loading=20
master/summitnjhome-reverse.db due to error(s)?  Was that file mentioned =

at all?

--Jon Radel
jon@radel.com




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