reverse lookup

[doobrie]

we have a few regions hooked up via a wan

in reverse lookup zones there are several subnets setup - i noticed some
of them have all their workstations as pointers listed but a few of them
only have the servers listed including mine

should the workstations be listed in the reverse lookup too?

its an all w2k environment - are they added manually or can this happen
automatically somehow?

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht]

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we have a few regions hooked up via a wan

in reverse lookup zones there are several subnets setup - i noticed
some of them have all their workstations as pointers listed but a few
of them only have the servers listed including mine

should the workstations be listed in the reverse lookup too?

its an all w2k environment - are they added manually or can this
happen automatically somehow?

The only time a reverse lookup is required is when there is an mail server
on the IP.

That being said, if you really want a reverse lookup for your machines on
your network you can set the reverse lookup zone to accept dynamic updates
just as you would the forward lookup zone.

 

[Michael Johnston [MSFT]]

On an internal private LAN, 99.999% of the time reverse lookups aren't needed. Typically the only place you need a reverse lookup is for SMTP servers
delivering mail on the Internet. It's entirely up to you if you want your clients to register. If you need them in there, verify that the clients are set to register their
addresses in DNS. Verify that the zone in question allows dynamic updates. Lastly, verify that the clients are actually getting the correct subnet mask.

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support

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