Re: [CustomDNS] nslookup

[Eric K. <eri...@po...>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:16:32PM -0800, Joel Shellman wrote:
> I realized after I posted it that it was probably doing a reverse
> lookup.

Yes.  nslookup tries to perform all sorts of weird lookups in addition to
the one you requested.  This is why you may want to send your queries
through a regular DNS server.

> Does CustomDNS support reverse lookups? How would you set it up?
> For bind, it's usually in files like 0.0.127.in-arpa. or whatever. I
> grepped the source for "reverse" and couldn't find anything.

Reverse lookups work just like foward lookups, but they use funny domain
names. :-)  Just copy your bind configuration over to CustomDNS, and
everything should work.

Cheers,
Eric