Hi all, First, please bear with me; i know this is not the place to ask about BIND; but i'm hoping that, someone out there could help me. Also, sorry for the lengthy post but most of it is to explain my scenario. And I believe, the answer to my question will be very short. Basically, I tried to delegate a reverse sub-domain (a subnet smaller than /24). I could query a PTR record from the parent server but i could not from the child server where all the configuration of the sub-domain belongs. Here is the detail: I have my home network connected to my office network with a registered domain (office.net, for example) with the scenario below. On the Office DNS server (ns1.office.net), I would like to delegate both the forward sub-domain home.office.net and reverse one 192.168.9.32/28 to the Home DNS server (ns1.home.office.net). My problem is that, on the Home server, i could not do this query: $ host 192.168.9.33 Host 33.9.168.192.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) While from the Office server, i can: $ host 192.168.9.33 33.9.168.192.in-addr.arpa is an alias for 33.32-39.9.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 33.32-39.9.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ns1.home.kis.net.kh. What could be the cause of problem? I might miss a transition somewhere between the office parent zone and the home child zone. But i just don't know. Everything else seems to work fine (the sub-domain forward zones are ok). I've been following the book of O'Reilly "DNS & BIND", 5th edition, which is a great book i found; but the part on the reverse sub-domain is a bit too tricky for me. Could someone please help me out? Here is the scenario: Office Network: =============== Domain: office.net (not real, used as example here only) IP subnet : 192.168.9.0/24 (not real, used as example here only) DNS Server: ns1.office.net (IP:192.168.9.1) Home Network: ============== Domain: home.office.net IP Subnet : 192.168.9.32/28 DNS Server: ns1.home.office.net (IP:192.168.9.33) On both of the DNS servers, i'm running BIND on Fedora 9. The configuration files on the Office server (ns1.office.net) looks as below: 1. /etc/resolv.conf === Beginning of file === search office.net nameserver 192.168.9.1 nameserver 192.168.9.2 === End of file === 2. /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf (I'm using bind-chroot here with ROOTDIR=/var/named/chroot set in /etc/sysconfig/named) === Beginning of file === options { listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.9.1;}; // listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; }; directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; allow-query { trusted;}; recursion yes; }; acl trusted {127.0.0.1; 192.168.9.0/24;}; include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; zone "office.net" IN { type master; file "office.zone"; }; zone "9.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "9.168.192.zone"; }; === End of file=== 3. /var/named/chroot/var/named/office.zone === Beginning of file === $TTL 1D @ IN SOA ns1.office.net. root.office.net. ( 08080201 ; serial 1D ; refresh 1H ; retry 1W ; expire 3H ) ; minimum NS ns1.office.net. NS ns2.office.net. MX 10 mail1.office.net. MX 20 mail2.office.net. A 192.168.9.12 ns1 IN A 192.168.9.1 ns2 IN A 192.168.9.2 mail1 IN A 192.168.9.11 mail2 IN A 192.168.9.12 www IN CNAME mail2 ;; Glue records for home.office.net home IN NS ns1.home ns1.home IN A 192.168.9.33 === End of file === 4. /var/named/chroot/var/named/9.168.192.zone: === Beginning of file === $TTL 1D @ IN SOA ns1.office.net. root.office.net. ( 08080203 ; serial 1D ; refresh 1H ; retry 1W ; expire 3H ) ; minimum NS ns1.office.net. NS ns2.office.net. 1 IN PTR ns1.office.net. 2 IN PTR ns2.office.net. 11 IN PTR mail1.office.net. 12 IN PTR mail2.office.net. $GENERATE 33-39 $ CNAME $.32-39 32-39 IN NS ns1.home.office.net. === End of file === And finally, the configuration files on the Home server (ns1.home.office.net) looks as below: 1. /etc/resolv.conf #=== Beginning of file === search home.office.net nameserver 192.168.9.33 #=== End of file === 2. /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf //=== Beginning of file === options { listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.9.33;}; listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; }; directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; query-source port 53; query-source-v6 port 53; allow-query { localhost; 192.168.9.32/28;}; // forward first; // forwarders {192.168.9.5;}; }; include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; zone "home.kis.net.kh" IN { type master; file "home.zone"; }; zone "32-39.9.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "32-39.9.168.192.zone"; }; //=== End of file === 3. /var/named/chroot/var/named/home.zone ;=== Beginning of file === $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns1.home.office.net. root.home.office.net. ( 08080501 ; Serial 28800 ; Refresh 14400 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 86400 ) ; Minimum IN NS ns1.home.office.net. IN MX 10 mail.home.office.net. ns1 IN A 192.168.9.33 mail IN A 192.168.9.35 ;=== End of file === 4. /var/named/chroot/var/named/32-39.9.168.192.zone ;=== Beginning of file === $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns1.home.office.net. root.home.office.net. ( 08080203 ; Serial 28800 ; Refresh 14400 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 86400 ) ; Minimum IN NS ns1.home.office.net. 33 IN PTR ns1.home.office.net. 35 IN PTR mail.home.office.net. ;=== End of file === Thanks in advance for any ideas? Best, Khem -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list