Including A Records For Someone Else's Hosts

[Kevin Darcy]

Why do your clients need reverse lookups of their IP addresses? When used for
(pseudo-)authentication, it's usually only servers which care about
reverse-resolving client addresses, not the other way around.

By the way, have you inquired whether they might already have their own
DNS infrastructure in place? Maybe you could just use delegation or selective
forwarding to resolve their names and/or addresses out of their DNS, instead of
having to duplicate the data in yours.


- Kevin

nick at glimmer.demon.co.uk wrote:

> We have a non-Internet connection to someone else's private network, and
> need to connect from a number of our machines to a number of theirs.
> Therefore I'd like to put a bunch of their machine's addresses into our
> DNS, rather than maintaining local hosts files on all our relevant
> machines.
>
> But to do that (using tools like h2n to generate zone files) I have to
> claim authority for their reverse zones, which feels like the Wrong Thing
> To Do.
>
> Is their a standard answer to this ?  (Like "don't do it" ?).
>
> Cheers,
> Nick Boyce
> Bristol, UK
> --
> I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o