8.4.4 reverse zone problems

David Price davelist at blackhole.com
Wed May 26 15:27:26 UTC 2004



Chris De Young wrote:

>>>I try to avoid Bad Things if possible. What is the correct way to handle 
>>>this type (/20) of delegation?
> 
> 
> You have to delegate it in 16 chunks, on octet boundaries. 
> 
I have a /20 block of IP addresses not a 16 and not a 24. How should I 
set up the zone file to answer for these if "20.10.in-addr.arpa" as a 
zone is a Bad Thing? Do I have any choices other than these two:

--Use "20.10.in-addr.arpa" as a zone as we have before and just accept 
that it is a bad thing (use BIND 8.3.3 since 8.4.4 apparently refuses to 
work with this, probably because its a bad thing)
--Split the zone file into a bunch of smaller zones: 
192.20.10.in-addr.arpa, 193.20.10.in-addr.arpa, 194.20.10.in-addr.arpa, 
and so on (a lot of extra work involved)

-David Price



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