reverse zone : 'dont know how to ..'

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Tue Mar 6 22:55:10 UTC 2001


On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:43:47AM +0100, peter pilsl wrote:
> 
> On my local DNS I've set up zones for all local subnets and one additional 
> zone called extern.local for a group of external computers I often have to 
> access, but dont have handy domainnames and therfore I want access by 
> shortcut. But now I want to setup the reverse zonefile for this 
> extern.local-zone and just dont know how ...
> 
> the zonefile for extern.local:
> $TTL 3D
> @       IN      SOA     ns.local. pilsl.x.x.x. (
>                         2001030201       ; serial, todays date + todays 
> serial #
>                         8H              ; refresh, seconds
>                         2H              ; retry, seconds
>                         4W              ; expire, seconds
>                         1D )            ; minimum, seconds
> 
>                 NS      ns.local.          ; Inet Address of name server
> 
> 
> c1              A a.b.c.d
> c2              A e.f.g.h
> c3		  A i.j.k.l
> .....
> 
> Note that this machines are in completely different nets with total 
> different IP's . So how to setup 
> up the reverse zone-file and how to include it in named.conf ?

You cannot set up _A_ reverse DNS zone file for this.  You will need to
ask the owners of c.b.a.in-addr.arpa, g.f.e.in-addr.arpa, and
k.j.i.in-addr.arpa to either include your names or delegate the
individual reverse-DNS IP addresses to you.

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