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Re: reverse name resolution



Hi JB,

Am Dienstag, den 23.11.2004, 14:39 -0700 schrieb JB:
> You are on the right track.  Saying
> zone "0/25.36.247.200.in-addr.arpa"
> has nothing to do with the file/directory.
> The file property inside the section deals with that.
> This is proper RFC2317 reverse delegation but Nate is right in that your ISP 
> must be on the same page with you when they do the delegation.  A couple 
> years ago, I was working with an ISP in southern cal that was big enough to 
> hire a full time DNS administration staff and they were all incompetent.  I 
> had to teach them how to do this so don't be surprised if you have to do the 
> same.   Making it read like this:
> zone "36.247.200.in-addr.arpa" {...
> is a dirty hack and should not be done.  It also breaks reverse lookups for 
> the rest of the hosts in that class C for you.

well yes (though there was no notion of the /25 in the given config, so
how should i have known).. ;)

Assuming it's the inverse of the DNS it should be a
"7/0.37.247.200.in-addr.arpa" for a /25, right? 
(as in 32-25=7)

-- 
Best regards,
 Kilian

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