Problem with reverse lookup in CIDR delegated domain [file details]

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

>In article <c2b0hk$c7$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
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>>Well, you're half right: there is exactly 1 PTR record in the zone, but 
>>not where anyone would expect to find it (unless they were doing a 
>>reverse lookup of an address with 5 octets, i.e. 67.116.182.184.186). So 
>>I'm not sure what the point of this zone is...
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>The CNAME records in the parent zone should cause lookups to be 
>redirected to this zone.  That's the point of RFC 2317.
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Yes, I see those CNAMEs now. So this is a variant of RFC 2317 with the 
container zone yet to be fully populated. I guess that would _work_, but 
I still don't like the choice of container-zone name (the PTR records 
look to me like reverse records for 5-octet addresses). But then, I've 
never really cared for the conventions in RFC 2317's examples either. If 
I had to do "classless delegation" (fortunately all of our external 
networks are /24 or bigger), I'd probably delegate container zones 
somewhere under my forward zones...

                                                                         
                                          - Kevin