Hi Hugo,

thanks for the help with this... I think I understand you to have recommended that I change the '1' to '120' in the last line of the reverse DNS zones file, as appended.  This makes sense, but only after the fact!

Cheers,
Max

$TTL 1d ;
$ORIGIN 195.13.212.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
@       IN      SOA     ns.exoco.net.   admin.exoco.net. (
                                       2010100401
                                       7200
                                       120
                                       2419200
                                       604800
)
        IN      NS      ns.exoco.net.
120       IN      PTR     ns.exoco.net.




From: Hugo Mills <hugo-bf@carfax.org.uk>
To: Max B <txtmax@yahoo.ca>
Cc: users@lists.bitfolk.com
Sent: Mon, October 4, 2010 10:34:36 AM
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] reverse DNS zone file

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:31:07AM -0700, Max B wrote:
> well, I found some errors in my reverse DNS zone file, which is appended.  I'm
> certain not to have eliminated all of them, so if anyone has comments, I'd be
> glad to receive them.
[snip]
> $TTL 1d ;
> $ORIGIN 195.13.212.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
> @      IN      SOA    ns.exoco.net.  admin.exoco.net. (
>                                        2007011501
>                                        7200
>                                        120
>                                        2419200
>                                        604800
> )
>        IN      NS      ns.exoco.net.
> ;        IN      NS      ns2.exoco.net.
> 1      IN      PTR    ns.exoco.net.

  ^ You probably want 120 here, as that's the last octet of your IP address.

  Hugo.

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