Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:35:14 -0700 From: "James Earl" <mtntrip@telus.net> To: "Victor Bondarenko" <vpb@indite.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space Message-ID: <004101c2f4db$0c365e20$341cb8a1@geneology> References: <20030327185204.GA645@comp4.ici.net> <20030327214336.GE645@comp4.ici.net> <20030327185204.GA645@comp4.ici.net> <20030327135506.A60255-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> <20030327183154.GA622@comp4.ici.net> <20030327103827.A8705@mail.telestream.com> <20030327185204.GA645@comp4.ici.net> <20030327183154.GA622@comp4.ici.net> <20030327214336.GE645@comp4.ici.net> <20030328005034.GA72254@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030327171013.A42884@mail.telestream.com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Bondarenko" <vpb@indite.org>
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: "James Earl" <mtntrip@telus.net>; "Jaime" <jaime@snowmoon.com>; "James
Earl" <jdearl@telus.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:20:34AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > > zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
> > > type slave;
> > > file "s/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak";
> > > masters {
> > > 192.168.1.1;
> > > };
> > > };
> >
> > This is a slave entry. It would be more interesting to see what the
> > master config looks like. Anyway, this address is in an RFC 1918
> > non-routable address range. That means it's not unique, and it's
> > completely meaningless on the global Internet. In fact, I have that
> > address here :-)
> >
>
> When I see a non-routable IP on a mailing list, I usually assume that
> whoever is asking the question doesn't want to tell what the real IP
> address is (although why I'm not exactly sure.)
>
> James - if that's not the case, I hope your ISP isn't charging you for
> the extra IP :-)
Ya, those were just examples for my question, taken directly from the DNS
section of the FreeBSD Handbook (or named.conf for that matter).
Thanks again for all the help.
James
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