Revers Zone

[Michael Voight]

eastk 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.
> 
> Thanks for your response...

The 22-4.10.in-addr.arpa zone should have the ptr records, but you would
also need the 4.10.in-addr.arpa zone to contain CNAME records to
"delegate" the entries for the subzone. 

Like:

1.22.4.10.in-addr.arpa. in cname 1.22.22-4.10.in-addr.arpa.
1.23.5.10.in-addr.arpa. in cname 1.23.22-4.10.in-addr.arpa.

RFC 2317 takes 2 zone files to handle the PTR records and CNAMES

Michael