keeping RFC1918 reverse lookups in one file

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri May 25 00:54:46 UTC 2001


	zone "10.in-addr.arpa" {
		...
	};

	Similarly for the other ranges in RFC 1918, 16.172.in-addr.arpa
	and 168.192.in-addr.arpa.  You should *not* try to have
	all three ranges in one master file even though technically
	you could do it. 

	Mark

> 
> all-
> i have, what i hope to be an easy dns question.
> i would like to incorporate all of my rfc1918 addresses into a single db
> file for reverse dns lookups.
> 
> the model i have in place, is similar to:
> 
> $TTL 86400
> @       IN      SOA     nameserver.foo. admin.nameserver.foo. (
>                         2001031700      ;Serial
>                         10800           ;Refresh after 3 hours
>                         3600            ;Retry after 1 hour
>                         604800          ;Expire after 1 week
>                         86400 )         ;Minimum TTL of 1 day
> 
>         IN      NS      nameserver.foo
> 
> $ORIGIN 1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.
> ;10.1.1/24
> 1       IN      PTR     blah.foo
> 2       IN      PTR     blah2.foo
> 
> $ORIGIN 3.3.10.in-addr.arpa.
> ;10.3.3/24
> 1       IN      PTR     blah3.foo
> 2       IN      PTR     blah4.foo
> 
> $ORIGIN 254.16.172.in-addr.arpa.
> 1       IN      PTR     blah5.foo
> 2       IN      PTR     blah6.foo
> 
> 
> I *think* this is a valid db file. However, I am not so certain as to how
> to call it from within named.conf.
> I already have a
> 
> zone "." IN {
> 
> entry for my root server information.
> 
> how can i call this file to create a central point of administration for
> my rfc1918 addresses?
> 
> i am using bind 9.1.0
> 
> thanks! -charles
> 
> 
--
Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com


More information about the bind-users mailing list