reverse DN serving of a subnetted C-class

[Cricket Liu]

> The problem is with reverse DNS. As it is only half of the network
> the primary server for revers DNS is located somewhere else and
> making an update on it is a pain ...
> 
> To my best knowledge there is  not much to do about it. But I am no
> expert on DNS issues, so I ask gurus - maybe there is a trick which
> would enable to run a local reverse DNS server for such a network?

Yes, and that trick is documented in RFC 2317.

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