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Date:      Mon, 24 May 1999 09:21:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      dan@nfol.com (Dan Harnett)
To:        mark@intrepid.net (Mark Conway Wirt)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND and subnetted in-addr.arpa domains
Message-ID:  <19990524132154.642E37A101@nfol.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990524085600.A20471@intrepid.net> from Mark Conway Wirt at "May 24, 1999  8:56: 0 am"

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> We have a dedicated access customer who wants to run reverse
> DNS on the subnet that we're routing to him.  We're running BIND 4.9.X,
> and I've looked though the BOG and man pages -- this doesn't seem
> possible.

> Is it possible in BIND 8?  This may be a good reason to upgrade if it is.

This is possible in bind 4.9.x as well.  AFAIK, there is no easy way to indicate
what ip address the subnet starts on.  There are several ways to do this, and 
the one that seems the easiest to administrate is to assign the PTR records to
a CNAME, then assign a NS for that CNAME.  Here's an example for a subnet in
a class C, 10.0.0.0:

32		IN	PTR	32.subnet.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.
33		IN	PTR	33.subnet.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.
34		IN	PTR	34.subnet.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.
35		IN	PTR	35.subnet.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.
36		IN	PTR	36.subnet.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.
...

subnet		IN	NS	ns.other.server.com.
		IN	NS	ns2.other.server.com.
		

On the customer's side, he/she will have to have a zone setup for the domain
subnet.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.  

I am unaware of an easier way to do this.  Perhaps bind8 has the ability to
make this easy.


Dan Harnett



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