Stephen Brown on 16 May 2006 19:44:56 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] "Mini" DNS options?


> Still, when I go to a winxp box with the dns server (10.2.2.253) set as 
> it's primary dns servre and I type "nslookup" at the command line I get:
> 
> *** Can't find server name for address 10.2.2.253: Non-existent domain
> 


That error actually is nslookup trying to do a reverse lookup for
10.2.2.253 to find out the hostname behind it.

You'll want to add a 2.2.10.in-addr.apra. zone to your DNS config with
PTR records back to the hostname for each IP address in 10.2.2.0/24 you
are using.

Things will work without doing that, but many applications try to do a
reverse lookup anyway, and it can take a few seconds for all the
possible lookups to fail, so things will be faster if you add the extra
reverse zone.

- Steve
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