Re: DNS: configure bind9 to resolve only a certain IP-range

[Hans Wilmer <hwilmer@condor-werke.com>]

Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:

> > how can I configure bind9 so that it would (reverse-)resolve a certain
> > range of IP-addresses only within a zone?
>>
> > I´ve been browsing through some documentations, but I couldn´t find any
> > option or something like that to tell bind that it is responsible for a
> > designated range of addresses only. Is this even possible?
>
> If you configure a zone to be authoratitive on a name server it will
> override any zones that are on the outside network.  In otherwords, if you
> configure a zone called yahoo.com and in the hosts file put www.yahoo.com
> to point to 192.168.1.80 then it will override the www.yahoo.com most
> people get to.  Master Zones override Hint Zones in other words.

Well, ok, but how does this help to solve the problem? The nameserver is 
and should be authoritative for our designated range of IP-addresses, but 
not for others. What´s the usual way to tell it so?

Setting the reverse-lookup zone from type master to type hint didn´t help.


GH