Reverse Mapping Part of a Class B
Barry Margolin
barmar at genuity.net
Wed Jan 23 15:48:32 UTC 2002
In article <a2mgu3$mme at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> We provide reverse mapping for our Class B network and
>also support a domain that occupies 8 octets of our network.
>
> We use bind as a master dns for that domain and have the
>usual slave zone setup in our master dns for their forward records. That
>works fine. The interesting part of the problem is that their
>reverse map is 8 octets of our network so you can't just set up
>the same Class B IN-ADDR.ARPA zone because that duplicates our
>reverse zone. Is there a safe way to define that range of octets
>so that it maps but doesn't break the global reverse map for our
>full Class B?
>
> I have successfully done this octet by octet which is
>okay if there are one or two, but I don't want to build 8 reverse
>zones if I don't have to.:-)
That's the usual way to do it.
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