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Hi Angel, re: > That's weird you guys can't do the reverse lookup. I tried it from Miami: > metofis* !host > host -a 198.85.226.20 > Trying "20.226.85.198.in-addr.arpa" > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7520 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;20.226.85.198.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > 20.226.85.198.in-addr.arpa. 8761 IN PTR ldm.cicsnc.org. > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > 226.85.198.in-addr.arpa. 8761 IN NS chlt-ns1.ncren.net. > 226.85.198.in-addr.arpa. 8761 IN NS reggae.ncren.net. > 226.85.198.in-addr.arpa. 8761 IN NS ncnoc.ncren.net. > > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > ncnoc.ncren.net. 10741 IN A 192.101.21.1 > reggae.ncren.net. 56456 IN A 128.109.131.3 > chlt-ns1.ncren.net. 12275 IN A 128.109.249.27 > > Received 193 bytes from 129.171.97.20#53 in 1 ms > > I also tried it from home and was able to do the reverse lookup. > Maybe some DNS tables are out of date? After seeing your reply this morning, I ran nslookups on all of the real server backends of the idd.unidata.ucar.edu cluster. IP to name lookups failed on two out of six of the nodes this morning (and so succeeded on four out of six nodes). I just sent a note off to Mike Schmidt (our system administrator) to see if he has nay idea how this could happen. After hearing back from Mike, I will implement a fix that will insure that feed REQUEST(s) from ldm.cicsnc.org will be honored by idd.unidata.ucar.edu. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GOR-261226 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Open