From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 18 13:51:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA21379 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:51:09 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA21314 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:49:52 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id VAA15706 ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:46:11 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id VAA06220 ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:46:10 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.1/keltia-uucp-2.6) id VAA08949; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:43:06 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199510182043.VAA08949@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: DNS question To: jdl@chromatic.com Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:43:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510181427.JAA09753@chrome.jdl.com> from "Jon Loeliger" at Oct 18, 95 09:27:38 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1215 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Jon Loeliger said: > Is there a way to reliably claim to do DNS for anything less than > a full Class-C subnet? I only have a 3-bit subnet, and I question > my 'Net friendliness if I claim this in my named.boot: Yes but it is a hack that generates more traffic... to delegate subnets you have to have as many zones as there is address in the subnet. DNS is not really made for anything than A,B,C addresses... > Meta-question: Is there a better DNS list to question for this one? info.bind (in News gatewayed as bind@uunet.uu.net) and comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains come to mind. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Oct 14 19:05:10 MET 1995