On Wed Mar 20, 2002 at 10:50:30PM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote:

> >I think it's a PITA to setup the 10.in-addr.arpa... I'm running
> >djbdns-extcache on the LDAP server, and to do that I have to run
> >tinydns with that zone. That's just a PITA (not to mention stupid).
>
> That's what the other guy in the qmail list was saying when I told him
> to setup reverse dns for qmail to work without the 30 second pause.
> In my case, I always throw together a quick authoritative nameserver on
> an internal LAN, so all the forward lookups are already done. To add
> reverse dns, one only needs to add to /var/djbdns/tinydns/root/data:
>
> .120.168.192.in-addr.arpa:192.168.120.4:a:259200
>
> And then:
> echo 192.168.120.4 > /var/djbdns/dnscache/root/servers/120.168.192.in-addr.arpa
>
> Once you run make for the first step and restart the cacheing server for
> the second step, full reverse dns will now work. Modify for your IP
> addresses.

Hmmm... maybe I'll play with this then. Will have to setup an IP
alias on that machine because tinydns and dnscache don't play too well
together otherwise.

> >Aaargh! One of these days... for now, containing this stuff in
> >/etc/hosts is good enough.
>
> And this is a good configuration for a small network. No need to overly
> complicate things until you start talking 5+ machines.

Well, I'm talking about 8 (not including the vmware workstations), so
maybe this would be a good idea anyways.

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