$GENERATE and reverse zone delegations

Will Yardley &- at no.spam.veggiechinese.net
Tue Jul 16 22:07:19 UTC 2002


In article <ah1m8c$r5d$1 at isrv4.isc.org>, Andre Schneickert wrote:
 
> I would like to use the nice $GENERATE feature to configure a bunch of
> reverse zone delegations.
> 
> I am using BIND 8.3.1 and tried to delegate the reverse zones
> 10.241.224/24 to 10.241.231/24 with the following statements:
> 
> $GENERATE 224-231 $.241.10.in-addr.arpa. IN NS  my.first.child.server.
> $GENERATE 224-231 $.241.10.in-addr.arpa. IN NS 
> my.second.child.server.
> 
> BIND refuses to load the parent zone.
> A debug gives:
> 
> 241.10.in-addr.arpa.db: Line 175: $GENERATE unknown type: IN.
> 241.10.in-addr.arpa.db: Line 176: $GENERATE unknown type: IN.
> 
> Why is BIND complaining about the type IN? Am I missing something
> here?

i've noticed this too. not sure why it does that, but sine the default
class is 'IN' anyway, you can just do:

$GENERATE 224-231 $.241.10.in-addr.arpa. NS  my.first.child.server.
etc.

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