RE: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup

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Author: Keith Smith
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: RE: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup

Thanks Rusty.

It is one box. It is on a non-routable IP. I use NAT for ports 80,
443, 53... etc.

So are you saying I need to make a reverse lookup for the non-routable
IP?

Thanks!!
Keith


On 2015-10-06 08:04, Rusty Ramser wrote:
> Hi, Keith.
>
> Will your environment be needing to do internal lookups based upon IP?
> For
> instance, are you using a non-routable set of IP addresses (e.g.,
> 10.x.x.x,
> 192.168.x.x) for your environment behind NAT, and will those systems
> need to
> perform name resolution of each other based upon IP? If so, yes,
> you'll
> want to have your own internal reverse lookup zone because obviously
> Cox (or
> any other public DNS provider) will not have that information.
>
> If you really don't need any internal reverse name resolution, then
> there
> may be no need to create a zone. For instance, there isn't an
> "environment"
> of servers you have, it's just this single web server. And the web
> server
> doesn't have any internal network it sits on, it's just got a public,
> routable IP address.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 10:11
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <>
> Subject: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm configuring Bind9 on my web server connected to Cox. Cox
> configures the
> IP reverse lookup.
>
> Do I still need to create a reverse zone file?
>
> The reverse zone file is to lookup the host by IP correct?
>
> Thank you for your help!!
>
> Keith
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