Forwarder

[Wilfred Chau_1]

How can I use forwarder for reverse lookup?
I am running Bind 8.1.2 and using forwarder to forward query to other nameserver and it works flawless with name resolution. But it didn't seem to work for reverse lookup.

[Juan González]

Hi Wilfred,
it works fine for me. How are you testing that it isn't work?Could you attach your named.conf file?

Best regards
JGM

[Wilfred Chau_1]

I had this in the named.conf file.
forwarders {
;
};

but after sig_named restart, and nslookup
an IP address didn't give me back the hostname.

[Juan González]

Hi,
if you want to query a reverse resolution you must do a PTR query:

#nslookup -query=ptr

Best regards
JGM

[Vincent Fleming]

nslookup works fine for me. It always has...

Are you sure your PTR records are properly configured?