fixing reverse resolution for our subnet. and one more question

[Scott Gibbs]

hello Barry,

I tried reading those, but one concrete example is worth a lot to me.

best regards
Scott Gibbs

Barry Margolin <barry.margolin at level3.com> wrote in message news:<bhjhlv$1783$1 at sf1.isc.org>...
> In article <bhjfei$156e$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Scott Gibbs <sgibbs at sfmx.org> wrote:
> >So I did a little bit more research and I couldn't find any examples
> >of the cname setup to guide me and the tech support guy at sgi was
> >stumped as well and said C&W should be using PTR records. But before I
> >contact C&W I wan't to make sure I have my ducks in a row -- based on
> >past experience with phone companies.
> 
> This setup is described in RFC 2317.  It's also in the O'Reilly "DNS &
> BIND" book in the section titled "Subnetting on a Non-Octet Boundary".
> 
> You should put your PTR records in your named.hosts file, as follows:
> 
> 208.142.133.10				IN PTR	gw
> 208.142.133.11				IN PTR	ns
> 208.142.133.12				IN PTR	ns2
> 208.142.133.13				IN PTR	www
> 208.142.133.17				IN PTR	telegraph
> 208.142.133.19				IN PTR	ross