Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:56:07 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Duke Normandin <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sendmail and DNS Message-ID: <20000622205607.A489@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <009501bfdcc1$afc9cca0$47b10a40@odie>; from dnormandin@freewwweb.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:58:49PM -0600 References: <009501bfdcc1$afc9cca0$47b10a40@odie>
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:58:49PM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote: [snip] > Would you know of a web reference that would explain the diff. > between dns / reverse-dns. I'm also assuming that > lookups / reverse-lookups refer to the same thing. Tia... Yes and no. You need a different set of records to do reverse-lookups, but the basic principles are the same. You have an entry like, zone "57.177.205.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "57.177.05.rev"; }; In named.conf and records that look like, 156 IN PTR scully.gothwolrd.com. This. As for docs, DNS is a tricky beast. I assume you've been to www.isc.org? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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