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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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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