Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > On 23.01.09 23:06, Barry Margolin wrote: > > > Why don't you just use normal reverse DNS: > > > > > > zone for 1.1.1.in-addr.arpa > > > > > > 1 IN PTR metis.local. > > > IN PTR bob-www-sol-l01.local. > > > > accorging to the above, metis.local is a CNAME, so the > > reverse should point to

RE: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-26 Thread Ben Bridges
> -Original Message- > > [ ... ] > > On 23.01.09 23:06, Barry Margolin wrote: > > Why don't you just use normal reverse DNS: > > > > zone for 1.1.1.in-addr.arpa > > > > 1 IN PTR metis.local. > > IN PTR bob-www-sol-l01.local. > > accorging to the above, metis.local is a CNAME, so the

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-26 Thread John Bond
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> When i tried this host did not resolve >> the cname. i.e a host 1.1.1.1 returned metis.local. it did not know >> to resolve metis.local as bob > > the host 1.1.1.1 returned that 1.1.1.1.in-addr.arpa is a CNAME to > metis.loc

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas > wrote: > > > > if metis.local is a CNAME, the PTR shouldn't point to it. On 25.01.09 10:14, John Bond wrote: > could you please explain this. Although it's good to remove irelevant part of the text you are replying to, this time you rem

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-25 Thread John Bond
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > if metis.local is a CNAME, the PTR shouldn't point to it. > -- could you please explain this. When i tried this host did not resolve the cname. i.e a host 1.1.1.1 returned metis.local. it did not know to resolve metis.local as b

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-25 Thread John Bond
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Barry Margolin wrote: > Why don't you just use normal reverse DNS: > > zone for 1.1.1.in-addr.arpa > > 1 IN PTR metis.local. > IN PTR bob-www-sol-l01.local. I read there were problems having 2 PTR records for the same ip. I know its in the RFC but thought MTA's

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> In article , > John Bond wrote: > > My idea was to create records like the following > > > > zone for .local > > > > bob-www-sol-l01 IN A 1.1.1.1 > > metisIN CNAME bob-www-sol-l01 > > > > zone for 1.1.1 > > > > 1 I

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-23 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , John Bond wrote: > Hello All, > > Sorry for the bad subject but i wasn't really sure how i could best > describe my circumstances. I would like to ask anyone out there if > something im proposing to implment is incorrect or just plain stupid. > Ok so the situation is that we have