I need to manage multiple domains

Ryan McCain Ryan.McCain at dss.state.la.us
Wed Nov 22 22:37:43 UTC 2006


> 	Normally you would have a *single* PTR record per address.
> 	Multiple PTR records do not scale.

I do have a single record  per address. see below.  

>>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at  4:27 PM, in message
<200611222227.kAMMRLoe033583 at drugs.dv.isc.org>, Mark Andrews
<Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote: 

>> Does the same hold true for reverse lookup files?
> 
> 	Normally you would have a *single* PTR record per address.
> 	Multiple PTR records do not scale.
>  
>> Currently, mine are in this format:
>> 
>> 
>> $ORIGIN .
>> $TTL 3600       ; 1 hour
>> 118.10.in- addr.arpa     IN SOA  nameserver.domain1.com.
>> admin.domain1.com. (
>>                                 18         ; serial
>>                                 900        ; refresh (15 minutes)
>>                                 600        ; retry (10 minutes)
>>                                 86400      ; expire (1 day)
>>                                 3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
>>                                 )
>>                         NS      nameserver.domain.com.
>> $ORIGIN 118.10.in- addr.arpa.
>> 239.37                  PTR     server1.domain.com
>> 239.39                  PTR     server2.domain.com
>> 239.7                   PTR      server3.domain.com
>> ..
>> ..
>> 
>> Would I need to change it to?
>> 
>> $ORIGIN .
>> $TTL 3600       ; 1 hour
>> 118.10.in- addr.arpa     IN SOA  nameserver  admin. (
>>                                 18         ; serial
>>                                 900        ; refresh (15 minutes)
>>                                 600        ; retry (10 minutes)
>>                                 86400      ; expire (1 day)
>>                                 3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
>>                                 )
>>                         NS      nameserver.
>> $ORIGIN 118.10.in- addr.arpa.
>> 239.37                  PTR     server1.
>> 239.39                  PTR     server2.
>> 239.7                   PTR      server3.
>> ..
>> ..
>> 
>> Thanks...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:01 AM, in message
>> <Prayer.1.0.18.0611211601250.15590 at hermes- 1.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Chris
>> Thompson
>> <cet1 at hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote: 
>> > On Nov 20 2006, John Wobus wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >>In a zone file, BIND lets you use the at sign (@) to refer to the
>> zone 
>> >>to which named.conf assigns the zone file.  Using it, zone files
can
>> be
>> >>created that do not include their own zone name.
>> > 
>> > More accurately, @ refers to the current origin, and zone files
are 
>> > interpreted with the origin initially set to the zone name. So if
>> you
>> > want to use @ to refer to the zone name, do not use a $ORIGIN
>> directive
>> > earlier in the zone file.
>> 
>> 



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