Network and subnet names
John Hascall
john at iastate.edu
Wed Aug 10 13:03:50 UTC 2005
> Just out of interest, what do people do with their network and subnet
> names?
>
> I'm putting the names of networks and subnets in an A-Record in the
> appropriate forward zone with the network/subnet mask as the "address",
> and putting a PTR record in the appropriate reverse zone that points to
> the name. This seem to me to be delivering the most important aspects of
> a network/subnet.
>
> It's been suggested that I should have PTR records in the appropriate
> forward zones too, with network/subnet names pointing to their
> in-addr.arpa names.
Are you talking about stuff like this:
% nslookup 129.186.1.0
Name: network-129-186-1-0--24.iastate.edu
Address: 129.186.1.0
Personally, if it was up to me, I'd do something like:
network-LOCATION.iastate.edu
John
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