hosts or subnet number in delegation?

Fajar A. Nugraha fajar at fajar.net
Wed Feb 24 07:16:20 UTC 2010


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:01 PM, sasa sasa <sasasa20066 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> for a 192.168.199.64/26 in zone file to delegate to a customer;
> should i put subnet number:
> 64/26 IN NS ns1.example.com.
> 64/26 IN NS ns2.example.com.
> or host ranges:
> 64-126 IN NS ns1.example.com.
> 64-126 IN NS ns2.example.com.

Doesn't really matter.
With the former, the client needs to create a zone called
64/26.199.169.192.in-addr.arpa, while in the later the zone would be
64-126.199.169.192.in-addr.arpa

See http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/reverse.html for example.

-- 
Fajar



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