in-addr.arpa question

[John K.]

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Bret Ford wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| My ISP, at my request, recently delegated to me responsibility
| for reverse name look up.  I have a DSL connection with 6 IPs (including
| the gateway).  They did it this way (output from 'dig'):
| 
|  9.57.102.216.in-addr.arpa.  2H IN CNAME   9.8.57.105.216.in-addr.arpa.
| 10.57.102.216.in-addr.arpa.  2H IN CNAME  10.8.57.105.216.in-addr.arpa.
| 11.57.102.216.in-addr.arpa.  2H IN CNAME  11.8.57.105.216.in-addr.arpa.
| 12.57.102.216.in-addr.arpa.  2H IN CNAME  12.8.57.105.216.in-addr.arpa.
| 13.57.102.216.in-addr.arpa.  2H IN CNAME  13.8.57.105.216.in-addr.arpa.
| 14.57.102.216.in-addr.arpa.  2H IN CNAME  14.8.57.105.216.in-addr.arpa.
| 
| I haven't been able to get this to work.  Is it kosher to CNAME across
| class B networks this way?  I'm rather new to this, so please pardon me
| if that's a dumb question.  Assistance much appreciated!
| 
| Bret Ford

I think this URL will help:

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2317.txt

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