Bizarre Name Resolution/Routing Problem

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:59:49PM -0500, Matthew Carpenter took 149 lines to write:
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> Apparently your nameservers have a lot of "noused" in your reverse
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[fscked reverse lookups snipped]

> Your reverse zones indeed are handing out that address.  It doesn't
> matter what the forward lookups are.  Are the listed DNS servers under
> your control?

Nope. They belong to the the cage provider.

> If they are an ISP's slaving off your master, perhaps they are not
> slaving the reverse zones correctly?

They're not slaving off of us. We sent a note an then called them
to say "WTF?" when no one replied to the email. The explanation is
that when they set up a block of IPs, they set them all to notused.mumble
and then follow up with the customer to get the correct names. However,
as you can see, they missed that vital follow-up step and no one at
work ever checked, until we started having trouble.

Thanks again, Matthew.

Kurt
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