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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:33:43 +0100
From: Richard Smith <rdls@rdls.net>
To: JOHN VAN BOXTEL <vanbo@usa.net>
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Subject: Re: Bind and Reverse Delegations
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:03:20PM -0700, JOHN VAN BOXTEL wrote:
> Our ISP delegated our ips for reverse lookup to our name servers but I an not
> quite sure, that I have the reverse DNS setup right.  The number of IPs we
> have is less then /24 so...
> 
> In my named.conf, do I need a zone per host for example hosts 12.45.1.1, and
> 12.24.1.2:
>  
> zone "1.1.45.12" {
>     type master;
>     file "12.45.1.1.rev";
> };
> 
> zone "2.1.45.12" {
>     type master;
>     file "12.45.1.2.rev";
> };
> 
> and in each .rev file one line:
>     1    IN PTR  hostname1.domain.net
>     2    IN PTR  hostname2.domain.net

RFC 2317 notwithstanding, the above lines should read:

     @    IN PTR  hostname1.domain.net

and:
     @    IN PTR  hostname2.domain.net

> 
> Or can I do the whole zone (which seems to work fine with the masters, but the
> slave complain that I an not authoratative for the zone and won't transfer)
> like so:
> 
> zone "1.45.12" {
>     type master;
>     file "12.45.1.rev";
> };
> 
> and in 12.24.1.rev list:
>     1    IN PTR  hostname1.domain.net
>     2    IN PTR  hostname2.domain.net
> 
> VANBO
> 
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