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From: "Greg" <gking@this.aint.my.address.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I can't nslookup myself ! anyone have any ideas why ?
Date: 21 Mar 1997 21:25:43 GMT
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You need to enter the reverse table entries in your Zone.

Example:

for you Zone you may have a series of host entries :
[SOA crap]
@	IN	NS	xxx
@	IN	MX	1	xxx
host1	IN	A	ip address
...
hostn	IN	A	ip address


Well, there is also a reverse table for those addresses that may look like
this :

5.200.199.in-addr.arpa.db  (assuming the host you are addressing is located
at 199.200.5.x)

Inside this record are entries like this :

5	IN	PTR	host.dom.ain
..
6	IN	PTR	hostn.dom.ain

You will need these entries to perform the nslookups

Tony <tony@gcr1.com> wrote in article
<01bc308b$1a79ab60$664c1bcc@tony.gcr1.com>...
> I can nslookup localhost and all other systems on the network but
> can't seem to figure out what I need to edit to get my self included in a
> lookup ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony
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