Re: Reverse DNS Configurqation in MS DNS

David Payer ( (no email) )
Mon, 1 Jun 1998 23:13:32 -0500

Subject: Reverse DNS Configurqation in MS DNS

>
>Hi, I may be a bit off topic here, but I am trying to fix a quirk in our
>system that is driving us all CRAZY.
>
>In our own domain, reverse DNS Lookup works fine, our MS DNS appears to be
>configured correctly.
>
>but when I query servers outside my domain, even a root server, they can
>never figure out who we are.
>

I had a similar problem and it turned out that my upstream provider had not
made my nameservers authoritative for that segment of their network and then
by default their nameservers were default. There is nothing you can do about
this, they must change it.

David Payer
OMNI Internet