Reverse lookup on a subnet

Stein Oddvar Rasmussen stor at online.no
Wed Dec 17 08:37:17 UTC 2003


Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <brku1l$7or$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  Stein Oddvar Rasmussen <stor at online.no> wrote:
 >
>>I have set up a name-server (bind9) for our domain and now I'm trying to 
>>configure a reverse-lookup-zone on the server and I am a little confused...
>>
>>Now, the IP-range I'm in charge of is a subnet of a class-C net, like this:
>>
>>Network address: xxx.xxx.244.32
>>Netmask:	 xxx.xxx.244.240
>>
>>Is it at all possible to set up a reverse-zone for a subnet like this?
> 
> 
> See RFC 2317.  There's also a section in the "DNS & BIND" book that 
> explains it.
> 

Um. Okay. What happens if I do not use reverse lookup at all?

- Stein -


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