Reverse IPv6 lookups with dynamic updates
Steven Latre
steven.latre at ugent.be
Mon Dec 19 14:44:40 UTC 2005
Stefan Puiu schreef:
>
> With BIND, there aren't any that I know of. Are you sure you'll be
> needing that many zones?
>
I'm a bit confused now. Let's say I have a zone "test". I've configured
the zone test successfully for regular lookups. If the addresses of my
zone are like fd02:3539:700b::<some local part>
Do I then need to add fd02:3539:700b:: as a zone for reverse lookup, or
isn't that defined as a zone?
And if I need to add this zone can I add a less specific zone
(manually): like fd::<local part>
steven
> On 12/19/05, *Steven Latr�e* < steven.latre at ugent.be
> <mailto:steven.latre at ugent.be>> wrote:
>
> Stefan Puiu schreef:
>
>>
>> You can only use nsupdate to add records to an already existing
>> zone. So you would need to create the zones first.
>>
> And is there a way to create these zones dynamically? Sorry if I'm
> asking stupid questions, I'm very new in all this
>
> steven
>
>
>> On 12/16/05, *Steven LatrŽe* < steven.latre at ugent.be
>> <mailto:steven.latre at ugent.be>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm experiencing some extreme performance loss with a Corba
>> application
>> since I installed bind. The reason I installed bind was to
>> speed up the
>> application (there was some trouble with the dns server of my
>> test
>> network giving the wrong IP to the Corba naming server).
>> Now since the IPv6 addresses of my machines change often I'm
>> using
>> dynamic update (TSIG and the nsupdate tool) to register the
>> DNS records
>> in bind. For now, I'm only adding AAAA records. I'm guessing
>> that the
>> reason my Corba application slows down is because he can't
>> perform a
>> reverse lookup (I'm not sure that the Corba Naming Service does a
>> reverse lookup but it's my best shot).
>>
>> Now, I want to make sure that reverse lookups are also
>> possible. Before
>> installing bind I knew practically nothing about all this.
>> I've done
>> some searching on the web but can't really find an answer. So
>> what I
>> want to do is adding a simple PTR record (right?) to the DNS
>> server with
>> the nsupdate tool.
>> The only extra difficulty (I think) is that my IPv6 addresses
>> can be
>> realy everything, I don't have a predefined network id or
>> something like
>> that. However, in all the sites I found in google the
>> tutorials mention
>> that I need to define this somehow.
>>
>> Can someone help me with this?
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>>
>
>
More information about the bind-users
mailing list