From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 1 18:23:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA17867 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 18:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17855 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 18:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA26789; Thu, 2 May 1996 10:54:23 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605020124.KAA26789@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Named and Reverse DNS lookups To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 10:54:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605011956.NAA07927@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 1, 96 01:56:43 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > Thanks to everyone who helped me set this up a couple months back. > Hopefully this last question is easy. > > SRI-MT's assigned address is 206.127.76.96/27, which consists of hosts > 97-126 (96 and 127 are reserverd). > > Here's the entry in /etc/namedb/named.boot. > primary mt.sri.com newmt > > Pretty basic. > > However, how do I setup my Reverse DNS stuff? I tried this, but it > didn't work. > > primary 96.76.127.206.in-addr.arpa newmt.rev > > And, I can't use : > primary 76.127.206.in-addr.arpa newmt.rev > > Since there are lots of machines outside of our little 30 host slice > that we need to resolve as well. Unless there's some magic I haven't been introduced to, or a newer BIND that understands / notation, you're limited to whole class-C addresses when it comes to specifying reverse lookups. As I understand it, you'll have to coordinate with the other slices to maintain a reverse-mapping on whichever server is nominated as the primary for the mapping. > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[