Silly question... child/parent setup

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed Apr 3 19:32:43 UTC 2002


In article <a8fl3o$rak at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Jonathan Angliss <valcor at fluxnet.org> wrote:
>This is probably a really silly question, but I cannot find any docs, or
>any books on this subject.  The book I did find (DNS & Bind) has a bit
>about setting up the parent, but nothing on setting up the child.  Here
>is the situation.  We have been assigned by our ISP a block of 5 IP
>addresses, and was curious about taking over the reverse lookup for those
>addresses, as well as hosting our domain on those addresses.  Doing the
>forward is easy, it's running, tested, and nearly ready to be set as the
>DNS for the domain.  The issue comes to reverse DNS for the block.  I've
>seen how the parent is setup, and it is fairly simple (in my mind
>anyway).  The question comes is how to setup the reverse for the 5
>addresses we have.  Could somebody give me any ideas (or examples)?

It's explained in that book.  See the section on "Classless in-addr.arpa
delegation".  It shows both the parent and child setups.

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