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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD nameserver / Samba
Date: 4 May 1996 21:12:01 GMT
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Gary Chrysler <tcg@mainelink.net> wrote:

> My primary nameserver db..
...
> 1		IN	PTR	localhost.mynet.org.
> bsdhost		IN	A	129.1.29.4
> 4.29.1.129	IN	PTR	bsdhost
> wfwhost		IN	A	129.1.29.5
> 5.29.1.129	IN	PTR	wfwhost

Boah!

You cannot mix A and PTR records in the same zone file!

Get a copy of ``DNS and BIND'' by O'Reilly.  Learn how reverse lookups
work.  Correct your setup.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)