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Reverse Domain Name Server

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How To Resolve IP Addresses To Domain Names?

I know it is possible to resolve IP addresses to host names but can IPs be resolved to domain names?
Boris_yo
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How long does reverse DNS take to propagate?

Say I have two domains, foo.com and bar.com, and I initially have an A record for: www.foo.com → 1.2.3.4 I then decide I want www.bar.com to resolve to this IP, so I delete www.foo.com's A record, and add an A record for bar: www.bar.com →…
Joe batista
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IP doesn't support rdns needed for email server

I'm setting up an email server for my business and personal use. I have a public static ip address from Cincinnati Bell (now altafiber). I tried getting them to setup/delegate reverse dns lookup via ns record so I could host all my email domains,…
b.sullender
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Setting up an email server's IP address for reverse DNS lookup

Should I set my IP address' PTR record to the domain (mydomain.com) or the subdomain where the mail server is (mail.mydomain.com)? It's a little confusing.
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Why my emails go to junk folder?

I registered a new .xyz domain name a few days ago. The domain name was never registered by others before. I set up a postfix server on a clean ip(checked its reputation). I set up SPF, DKIM, and reverse DNS. I composed a simple email(subject: hello…
peter
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IP address + domain name

I have an IP address, xx.xx.xx.xx, for which ping works. But when I do an nslookup for that IP address it is failing. Is there a way to find the domain name of the machine with the IP address xx.xx.xx.xx?
sureshbabu
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How can traceroute show two different names for the same IP address?

Here are two traceroutes both to 82.195.128.132. One results in the name ns1.hosting365.ie and the other in the name mail.hosting365.ie. Why the difference? traceroute to mail.cameracentre.ie (82.195.128.132), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 …
TRiG
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How to prioritise one domain name over others in rDNS?

I have a single remote server and multiple domain names. This server hosts webpages under certain domain names - say domain1.com - and hosts a webpage with an associated mail server under a separate domain name - say domain2.com. The issue I have,…
user10709800
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What is the standard for assigning rDNS to unused hosts?

In a range with unused hosts, is the standard to set the rDNS to a generic default one within the network (such as the IP address dot the company's domain name) or is rDNS not meant to be set for an unused host until manually done otherwise as soon…
William
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Create a fake RDNS resolution in Linux

I'm currently contributing at Mozilla Community IT, and I'm working with our infrastructure team to setup a puppet master. Puppet doesn't play nicely without RDNS resolving properly, but our cloud provider (HP) doesn't currently offer RDNS I was…
Tom Farrow
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Is the reverse DNS lookup performed by IRC networks usually validated against the forward lookup?

Google gave me conflicting answers for this one. Some believed that most networks take the lazy attitude to DNS lookups and simply set your hostname to whatever RDNS throws up while others said it was validated bi-directionally. What, in your…
Elliott
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Clients with broken reverse DNS are slow to connect, how to fix?

Some client has no reverse DNS and that clients has long timeout on connect with different services like ftp, ssh and more. How to configure reverse dns resolution right on production servers? Maybe there is way to completely disable it for all…
NermaN
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Is there an advantage to using separate IPv4 and IPv6 reverse delegation servers?

Currently, we have the following DNS servers setup for reverse DNS of IPv4 and IPv6 ranges: rdns0.v4.rdns rdns1.v4.rdns rdns2.v4.rdns rdns0.v6.rdns rdns1.v6.rdns rdns2.v6.rdns Where the v4 servers are used only for reverse DNS zones for IPv4 and…
William
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Reverse DNS setup not working - BIND on CentOS 7

I haven't setup BIND before but am quite knowledgable with DNS (I'm from the Windows world). I'm having a reverse DNS issue. Forward DNS is working fine for the zone int.linuxlab Here are the relevant lines from named.conf zone…
Dani Sarfati
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