Classless CIDR delegation...

Gregory Hicks ghicks at hicks-net.net
Sun Aug 16 01:59:03 UTC 2009


Greetings:

I'm having a bit of a problem with my DNS server.  Serves my forward
zone OK but fails to load the DATA for the PTR (reverse) zone.
Something about "ignoring out of zone data"...  I understand that my
reverse zone actually has NOT been delegated to my servers.  (That was
done with malice aforethought because I have not been able to get the
reverse zone to load...)

My named.conf file (extracts) looks like this:

 zone "hicks-net.net" in {
        type master;
        file "db.hicks-net.net";
        allow-update { none; };
        allow-transfer { 87.98.164.164; 195.234.42.1; };
};

 zone "96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master ;
        file "db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa" ;
        allow-update { none; };
};

This is my reverse zone:

----
$ORIGIN .
$TTL 3600

96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa.  IN SOA ns.hicks.net. hostmaster.ns.hicks-net.net (	2009081502	; serial
	3600		; refresh
	900		; retry
	604800		; expire (1 week)
	3600		; minimum (1 hour)
	)

	IN NS	ns.hicks-net.net.
	IN NS	ns0.xname.org.
	IN NS	NS1.xname.org
	IN A	64.139.55.108
	IN MX 10 mx.hicks-net.net.

97.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa.	IN PTR	localhost. ; rtr.hicks-net.net.
98.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa.	IN PTR	localhost. ; fw.hicks-net.net.
99.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa.	IN PTR	mx.hicks-net.net ; mx.hicks-net.net.
100.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa.	IN PTR	young-one.hicks-net.net.
101.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa.	IN PTR	young.hicks-net.net.
102.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa.	IN PTR	kris.hicks-net.net. (laptop)
108.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa.	IN PTR	metis.hicks-net.net.
----

I have tried this variant on the PTR record.  (There were others but I
cannot remember them.)  Anyway, all failed.

97.96-28.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR localhost.

This is what I get from named when I try and load the zone:

15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.775 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:17: ignoring out-of-zone data (97)
15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.775 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:18: ignoring out-of-zone data (98)
15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.775 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:19: ignoring out-of-zone data (99)
15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.776 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:20: ignoring out-of-zone data (100)
15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.783 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:21: ignoring out-of-zone data (101)
15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.783 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:22: ignoring out-of-zone data (102)
15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.783 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:23: ignoring out-of-zone data (108)
15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.785 general: info: zone 96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa/IN/external: loaded serial 2009081500
15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.787 general: info: reloading zones succeeded
15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.799 notify: info: zone 96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa/IN/external: sending notifies (serial 
2009081500)

I get these messages from named-checkzone:

 named-checkzone 96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa /var/yp/name*/db.96*
/var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:17: ignoring out-of-zone data (97.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa)
/var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:18: ignoring out-of-zone data (98.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa)
/var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:19: ignoring out-of-zone data (99.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa)
/var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:20: ignoring out-of-zone data (100.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa)
/var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:21: ignoring out-of-zone data (101.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa)
/var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:22: ignoring out-of-zone data (102.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa)
/var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:23: ignoring out-of-zone data (108.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa)
zone 96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2009081503
OK

(Basically, the same messages I get from named...)

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?  (I have a copy of RFC-2317 but
I'm still lost.)

Any assist would be appreciated.

Regards,
Gregory Hicks
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