In order to test without killing important things, I have delegated a reverse zone only. I made the suggesed change but still have the same issue. Clearly the server is not following the delegation. Config files follow. Any ideas?
dig -x +trace @athena 10.0.2.252 ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 18117 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;+trace.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: in-addr.arpa. 10061 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. dns-ops.ARIN.NET. 2009050704 1800 900 691200 10800 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 148.165.30.30#53(148.165.30.30) ;; WHEN: Thu May 7 11:39:49 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104 ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> -x +trace @athena 10.0.2.252 ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 39199 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;10.0.2.252. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 10299 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2009050700 1800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 148.165.30.30#53(148.165.30.30) ;; WHEN: Thu May 7 11:39:49 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 103 My named.conf is now: options { directory "/var/named"; query-source address 148.165.30.30 port 53; forwarders { 148.165.3.10; }; forward only; allow-transfer { 148.165.7.200; 148.165.126.87; 10.2.242.222; }; transfer-source 148.165.30.30; notify-source 148.165.30.30; recursive-clients 2000; zone-statistics yes; }; zone "bart.gov" { type master; file "db.bart"; forwarders { }; }; zone "10.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "db.10"; forwarders { }; The zone db.10 still contains: $TTL 4H @ SOA athena.bart.gov. bernhardt.bart.gov. ( 2009050701 4H 10M 1w3d 10M ) NS athena.bart.gov. NS apollo.bart.gov. $GENERATE 0-127 $.10 NS dhcp-01.adm.bart.gov. $GENERATE 0-127 $.10 NS mrep-02.adm.bart.gov. _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users