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

reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-23 Thread John Bond
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 one set of developers who like to call there