help wiht classless network and reverse lookups

[Peter Anton]

on 3/20/01 9:18 PM, Bill Dossett at postmaster at bill.co.uk wrote:
> named.conf contains
> 
> zone "0-26.235.243.193.in-addr.arpa"{
> type master;
> file "193.243.235";
> };
> 
> 193.243.235 contains
> 
> $ORIGIN 0-26.235.243.193.in-addr.arpa.
> @    IN SOA     ns0.terrapin.co.uk.     postmaster.bill.co.uk. (....)
> ...
> @                       NS      ns0.terrapin.co.uk.
> @                       NS      ns0.emtex.com.
> 3                       IN      PTR     lucida.terrapin.co.uk.

Here goes my first attempt at helping someone here... Second if you count
the inadvertent empty message sent a moment ago, for which I now
apologize...

This may be way off base, as you implied you did not get error messages
during the named startup in the logs.
You also didn't mention which version you are using... But we're using
9.1.1, and I also had some trouble getting the classless delegation to work
as well until...

I realized that the recent versions do not support the range listed as
0-26.235.243.193.in-addr.arpa
in the named.conf zone statement.

Instead, try a slash:

zone "0/26.235.243.193.in-addr.arpa"{
            type master;
            file "193.243.235";
        };

When I originally used the dash, I did get error messages during named
startups and -HUP's, basically alerting me that the zone did not load
properly.


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Peter John Anton         Technical Manager, MicroPRINT
Waltham, Mass., USA               781-890-7500
peter at mprint.com