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Reverse DNS lookup check not working

list Jeremy Laidman
Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:32:23 +1000
Message-Id: <user-3cf0c74225cc@xymon.invalid>

On 8 April 2013 00:34, Jeremy Laidman <user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I'm not in a position to check until tomorrow, but I'm confident that I
successfully test for the localhost address like so

  DNS=PTR:1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
I was wrong in the IP address that I test, but correct in the format and
the fact that it works.  You should be able to do PTR record checks by
formatting in this "in-addr.arpa" format.  An easy way to get this is from
the output of "dig -x" which shows the question section in the
"in-addr.arpa" format (and also in the answer section if it resolves).

J