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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:48:45 +0800 (WST)
From:      Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>
To:        ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk (Richard Morte)
Cc:        papalia@udel.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DNS (was: DNS & Virtual hosting)
Message-ID:  <199911151048.SAA23607@laurasia.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <382FD9B2.985E8A8B@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> from Richard Morte at "Nov 15, 99 10:00:18 am"

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> John
> 
> Have you tried running nslint? It usually picks up very well on
> configuration errors. There are a few occasions when you may not want
> reverse mapping (IP address ==> Name); for instance, we have an Apache
> server on our FreebSD box, configured for name-virtual hosting. All the
> names of the virtual domains share the same IP address, so we have a
> zone that provides this mapping, but no reverse mapping (ie no PTR
> records).
> 
> nslint complains about the fact that there are no PTR records for our
> 'Apache' domains, but this is nslint being too conservative in this
> instance.
> 
> Recommend you try it! (Apologies if you already have!)

I'd never heard of nslint before. It looks like a good little tool.

For the record, it can be found in the ports collection (/usr/ports/net/nslint)

Regards,

Mike Kennett



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