You have a reverse zone file, but did you set up that reverse zone in your /etc/named.conf file? Incidentally, the zone name should be something like 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. Without telling named that it's actually supposed to answer for the 192.168 reverse zone, it won't do so. On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Stephen Mah wrote: > I recently took a Redhat 253 course and I'm in the process of setting up > a lab at home so that I can go over the lab exercises. > > I have three machines hooked up to an isolated hub. I'm using 192.168.0 > as the network. I'm trying to mimic the classroom environment as closely > as possible. > > I have a server configured with dns. > clients can resolve host names but reverse look ups fail. ie: host > station2.example.com works, but hosts 192.168.0.2 fails. > > > I've have a reverse zone file, so I'm at a loss. > > > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe