On Thursday June 19 2003 12:40 pm, 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. Is the reverse zone configured in named.conf? Something like: zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "192.168.0.db"; }; If yes, then do a tail -f /var/log/messages and restart named. This may give you an indication of what is failing. -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mom & Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three." -- Billie Holiday