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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc-e!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: DNS Entry. Date: 23 Oct 1996 12:34:45 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <54l3d5$3j5@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <326BB6C5.7C6F@netmatrix.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Anuj Jaitly <anujjaitly@netmatrix.net> wrote: > We recently discoverd the fact that our BSDI box carrying our DNS server > entries did not present our hostnames when connecting to an other > server, rather is shows only the boxes IP address. > > Although this seems to be a routine task I can not fix the problem. Your message is slightly confusing (``when connecting to an other server''). Are your sure your DNS reverse mapping is installed at all? I.e., if you are using the IP network 1.2.3.0, do you have a zone file for 3.2.1.in-addr.arpa installed? -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j