NSD Problems (Reverse Direction)

NSD
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What am I doing wrong??? I'm using nsd on OpenBSD.

nsd works only in the forward direction: from a name to an IP address.
I'm using my named zone files from way back.
nsd-checkzone says that the zone files are good.
Here are the startup logs for nsd:

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What am I doing wrong??? I'm using nsd on OpenBSD.

nsd works only in the forward direction: from a name to an IP address.
I'm using my named zone files from way back.
nsd-checkzone says that the zone files are good.
Here are the startup logs for nsd:
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Jul 8 20:30:20 Soekris2 nsd[85856]: nsd starting (NSD 4.2.4)
Jul 8 20:30:21 Soekris2 nsd[78426]: zone 10.24.172.in-addr.arpa read with success
Jul 8 20:30:21 Soekris2 nsd[78426]: zone 20.24.172.in-addr.arpa read with success
Jul 8 20:30:21 Soekris2 nsd[78426]: zone 30.24.172.in-addr.arpa read with success
Jul 8 20:30:21 Soekris2 nsd[78426]: zone 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa read with success
Jul 8 20:30:21 Soekris2 nsd[78426]: zone Foo.Bar read with success
Jul 8 20:30:21 Soekris2 nsd[78426]: nsd started (NSD 4.2.4), pid 71631
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nsd works in the forward direction (not shown).
nsd fails in the reverse direction:
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117 Soekris2# nslookup
> server 127.0.0.1
Default server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
> set port 53053

             ^^^^^

> 172.24.20.1
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

                          ^^
You're not asking the server you expect.

Dunno why, never use it. Maybe has to do with the recent cleanup os
nslookup and friends. I prefer dig.

  -Otto

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I asked:

nsd works only in the forward direction: from a name to an IP address.
I'm using my named zone files from way back.

$ORIGIN

You haven't got one. You have a comment saying what the origin is,
but no $ORIGIN directive in the example supplied.

Adding the $ORIGIN directive solved the problem.

Thank you,
Ken

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