From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 1 20:51:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA06094 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 20:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA06080 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 20:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from craig@localhost) by seabass.progroup.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA04412; Wed, 1 May 1996 20:53:05 -0700 Message-Id: <199605020353.UAA04412@seabass.progroup.com> Subject: Re: Named and Reverse DNS lookups To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 20:53:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Craig Shaver" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605011956.NAA07927@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 1, 96 01:56:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] 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 > > > 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. > > The manpage wasn't obvious, and the ORA TCP/IP book didn't help either. > > > Nate > One thing you can do is to have your ISP set up the reverse for you on that whole class c. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088