help wiht classless network and reverse lookups

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Mar 20 22:49:32 UTC 2001


Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:

> >
> > Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> >
> > >         Classless in-addr.arpa requires *two* zones to be setup.
> >
> > Technically, that's not true. The PTRs can live anywhere, including in an exi
> > sting
> > "forward" zone. In fact, I consider that preferable; less zone setup that way
> > .
>
>         It requires two zones.  One to contain the CNAMES, one the CNAMES
>         point into.

I misparsed your original sentence as "Implementing classless in-addr.arpa
requires one to setup two zones" instead of "Classless in-addr.arpa presumes the
existence of two zones". Sorry.


- Kevin



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