Subnet reverse delagation, RFC 2317

Jukka Pakkanen jukka.pakkanen at qnet.fi
Thu Jul 29 11:38:20 UTC 2010


29.7.2010 14:26, Niobos kirjoitti:
> On 2010-07-29 09:58, Jukka Pakkanen wrote
>    
>> Recursion is only allowed for the local networks, but why the server
>> thinks recursion is needed in the first place?
>>      
> Because it is: dig -x looks for 200.217.142.62.in-addr.arpa.
> Your server is not a master for this zone; instead it's master for
> 128/25.217.142.62.in-addr.arpa.
>
> The original request (200.217.142.62.in-addr.arpa.) is mapped via a
> CNAME to a name inside your zone, but this mapping is done by the
> ns3.sci.fi. nameserver; hence recursion is needed.
>    

Ok, this makes sense to me too.  But what is the fix, I can't allow 
general recursion for the world?

Is it possible to allow recursion for this zone only?  (sorry being 
lazy, I'm sure this is in the ARM..).



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