Revers Zone

[Barry Margolin]

In article <6j4u3.640$MK5.37926 at dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net>,
eastk <eastk at gte.net> wrote:
>QIP 5 will allow me to delegate to other servers for reverse DNS and any bit
>boundary.  It creates zones in the format of 22-4.10.in-addr.arpa.  The
>problem I have is with the use of these zones.  Tools such as NSlookup and
>ping -a fail to resolve against the reverse zones?  I will go look at RFC
>3127 and see if I need to do something more.

I assume you mean RFC 2317.  It looks like you may have forgotten the
CNAMEs in the parent domain.

Note also that this technique is generally only applicable to reverse DNS
for blocks smaller than a class C, i.e. /25 - /32.  For a /22 block you
should just create four separate subdomains.

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