in.named and $GENERATE directive

[Cricket Liu]

> I have a Solaris 7 box with in.named (8.1.2 presumably). I needed to apply
the
> $GENERATE directive to create series of records. I added the following
lines to my reverse zone file:
> $ORIGIN 0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
> $GENERATE 1-127 $ CNAME pop$.domain.net.
> but nslookup says server failed. Does that version of in.named support
$generate
> and if, how?

No, $GENERATE is first supported in BIND 8.2.

cricket

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