Reverse Delegation Sanity check

Mark.Andrews at iengines.com Mark.Andrews at iengines.com
Tue Dec 14 05:52:09 UTC 1999



> > 	Also if you are serving a /25 to /32 it is good practice to serve
> > 	the parent zone as well.  See the example above.
> 
> Why is this good practice? Something will break if I dont? Computer
> people love to ask why:) 
> 

	Because to do a reverse resolution you need to contact the
	parent zone.  If you don't secondary it and your links to
	the parent servers are down you won't be able to resolve
	local addresses.

	Mark

> Mike
> --
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> 
> 
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