Reverse zones best practices
nex6
borg at borg1911.com
Tue Jun 26 15:42:36 UTC 2012
* Brad Bendily <Brad.Bendily at LA.GOV> [2012-06-25 16:35:28 -0500]:
wouldn't it be more confusing, in a big IP space with servers, desktops etc all mashed together into one zone?
> I don't know about best practice in this case, but I decided to put our reverse entries into one "super netting" file as you call it.
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> We had the same problem that a lot of reverse entries were missing, so I wrote
> a script to parse the forward file and create the reverse. Then I incorporated
> that into my "adding a new entry" process so, I never add a reverse entry now, the script creates it. For that matter, all of our forward entries are in one file as well.
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> I don't need to look at DNS to find my network structure. I just want DNS to do DNS.
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> bb
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> From: bind-users-bounces+brad.bendily=la.gov at lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+brad.bendily=la.gov at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of nex6
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> Subject: Reverse zones best practices
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> Hi all,
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> look for some info on best practices for reverse zones. I have, a pretty big IP space and alot of reverse zones are not created.
> I want to clean it up, a few people that dont really know DNS are thinking of "super netting" eg a top level 10.0.0.0/16 sorta thing.
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> but we have 100s of defined mission critical reverse zones defined at the vlan level of 10.x.x.0/24... my thinking, would be do a discovery and create all the /24s, even if there is like 100s. instead of the bigger super net...
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> what would be the best practice and the way to go?
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> -Nex6
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