Reverse lookup zones

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Dec 10 20:14:26 UTC 1999


In article <82r68o$2kc$1 at news.gov.on.ca>,
Richard <richard.abraham at mnr.gov.on.ca> wrote:
>I seem to have to specify all zones with their first 3 numbers.
>
>
>i.e. 12.153.156.in-addr.arpa
>       60.153.156.in-addr.arpa
>       71.153.156.in-addr.arpa
>       and on and on and on.
>
>I'm assuming that is how NT has them on the master.
>
>Is there a simple way of getting all the reverse lookup zone information
>other than as above.

No.  If the master server has separate zones for each subnet, you need
separate zones on the slave as well.

It should be a simple matter to write a little script that will fill in
your named.conf file with entries for 0.154.156.in-addr.arpa through
255.154.156.in-addr.arpa.

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