A Newbie RFC2327 Question

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> In article <rtlrlgq31iv88 at news.supernews.com>,
> Sinan Alyuruk <sinan at verisoft.com.tr> wrote:
> >According to RFC2327, my named.0.168.192 file  should look like below if the
> >host.A.com is only one authoritative namserver for all three zones.
> 
> I don't think you have the right RFC there.  2327 is titled "SDP: Session
> Description Protocol" and has nothing to do with DNS.  Did you mean RFC
> 2317?  That's about reverse DNS for subnets smaller than a class C, so it
> doesn't seem relevant to your question, either.
> 
> >
> >
> >named.0.168.192 file:
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >$ORIGIN 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
> >@                IN    SOA    host.A.com    hostmaster.A.com (
> >                            9907301      ; serial
> >                            5M              ; refresh
> >                            1M              ; retry
> >                            2W              ; expiry
> >                            12H )           ; minimum
> >   ;
> >                      IN     NS   host.A.com.
> >;
> >   10               PTR     host.A.com.
> >   11               PTR     host.B.com.
> >   12               PTR     host.C.com.
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >----------
> >
> >is this above configurations ok for my hosts reverse lookups work?
> 
> Structurally, it's fine.  However, you said that the name of 192.168.0.12
> was host1.C.com, so the last line should be:
> 
>    12               PTR     host1.C.com.
> 
	Looking at what is quoted above, you need to ensure that the
	records start at the first character on the line.  It looks
	like there is white space there.  If so the 10, 11 and 12 will
	be interperated as TTL values and the owner name would be
	0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.

	Mark

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