Hand holding needed

[Barry Margolin]

In article <eb44as0dvprfrtgfprm6jh509c297hesuh at 4ax.com>,
Kevin D. Quitt <KQuitt at IEEInc.com> wrote:
>I am running Bind DNS 4.9.7 (because 8 won't run on this machine) under
>Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a.
>
>Here's what I want:
>
>ns1.quitt.net	63.194.241.32
>	primary server for QUITT.NET
>	primary server for CASTLEINFINITY.COM
>	handles reverse lookups for CASTLEINFINITY.COM
>
>ns2.quitt.net	63.197.174.42
>	secondary server for QUITT.NET
>	secondary server for CASTLEINFINITY.COM
>
>vortico.castleinfinity.com 63.197.174.43
>c8server2.castleinfinity.com 63.197.174.44
>c8server4.castleinfinity.com 63.197.174.45
>www.castleinfinity.com 63.197.174.46
>
>(44 and 45 do not have name service currently.)
>
>I have the block 63.197.174.40/29(42-46) delegated to my name server.  (A
>partial quote from my ISP.  I do not understand the /29 notation.)  I have

/29 refers to the number of 1-bits in the network mask of the network.  /29
is short for 255.255.255.248.  The address range it refers to is actually
..40-47, although .40 and .47 are reserved (they're the network address and
broadcast address, respectively).

>both ns1 and ns2 working properly as forward DNS for QUITT.NET and
>CASTLEINFINIT.COM, but this delegation is new so I can provide reverse
>lookup as well.  I'm told to add the reverse zone
>40.174.197.63.in-addr.arpa to my named.boot file and was given RFC2317 as
>a guide.  I am completely unable to make sense of it, mostly because I
>really don't understand what all this is about.
>
>The Bind install created this db.63.194.241.0 file for the primary server
>ns1.quitt.net:

Have you really been given the entire 63.194.241.0-255 address block?
PacBell's nameservers don't seem to agree -- they haven't delegated this
block to your servers.

>
>@        IN SOA ns1.quitt.net. postmaster.quitt.net. (
>        2000010110
>              7200
>              3600
>            691200
>             86400)
> 
>	IN	NS	ns1.quitt.net. 
>1	IN	PTR	localhost.quitt.net.
> 
>32	IN	PTR	ns1.quitt.net.
> 
>-------------------------------------------
>which I *think* I understand.  For the reverse lookup for
>CASTLEINFINITY.COM I figure I need to add this line to named.boot:
>
>primary 40.174.197.63.in-addr.arpa db.63.197.174.40
>
>then create the file /var/named/db.63.197.174.40
>
>
>@        IN SOA castleinfinity.com. postmaster.castleinfinity.com. (
>        2000010110
>              7200
>              3600
>            691200
>             86400)
> 
> 
>	IN	NS	ns1.quitt.net. 
> 
>42	IN	PTR	ns2.quitt.net.
> 
>	IN	NS	ns2.quitt.net.
> 
>43	IN	PTR	vortico.castleinfinity.com.
>44	IN	PTR	c8server2.castleinfinity.com.
>45	IN	PTR	c8server4.castleinfinity.com.
>46	IN	PTR	www.castleinfinity.com.
>46	IN	PTR	castleinfinity.com.
>
>---------------------------------------------
>
>Am I even close?  I'm afraid of messing up the DNS for the sake of the
>reverse lookup.  Thanks in advance.

This file looks right.  However, your ISP doesn't seem to have installed
the delegation record for it or the CNAME records that RFC 2317 requires.
You need to bug them about this.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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