Subdomain variation ?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Aug 17 22:31:58 UTC 2000


No, you wouldn't create a subdomain, you'd just get a delegation for the other
C-class, define the zone on your server(s) and populate it with the PTR
records.


- Kevin

Randy Hislop wrote:

> I have searched through the archives but find no scenario like mine, which I
> believe should be rather simple (I think).
>
> I am on a WAN and run BIND 8.1.2 on SunOS_4.1.4 on our "corporate" mail
> server.   There is a Linux (acting as a mail server) box in the other city
> on the WAN and does not do DNS.  All PCs in that city point to the corporate
> server for primary DNS.  That city has its own class C and is visible on the
> internet as is the corporate class C.
>
> My problem is that I must do reverse DNS for that class C so I must create a
> subdomain, yes?  It seems to me that all answers to other postings have
> assumed that there is a name server in the other subdomains, I do not have
> this.
>
> What entries do I need to place in named.conf (if any) and what entries do I
> need in the corporate zone file if we assume the class C on my primary is
> 192.135.2.0 and  the other is 199.188.2.0 and the corporate domain is
> main.com and the other is sub.main.com?
>
> Randy






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