A record for a subnet

[Chris Meadors]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Michele Chubirka wrote:

> Is it appropriate to make the following entry?
>
>   VaCampus-subnet.gwu.edu.	IN A 128.164.24.0
>
> I've never heard of making an A record for a network address. Is this
> common?

It's actually kind of neat.  If you give names to your network address you
can refer to them that way when you are setting up routes (not that much
use, as you probally can't see your name server before the routes are up),
but with the PTR records "route" will give names to the networks rather
than just IPs.

-Chris
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