Oggetto: Re: Reverse delegation on bind 8.2.2

[Kevin Darcy]

(Please don't send messages to kdc at daimlerchrysler.com. Whoever that is probably
can't help you with your question).

Read RFC 2317. Not only do you need to define and populate the zone on your
server, but the owner of the parent zone also has to delegate the subzone and
add aliases to your PTR records.


- Kevin

sfranchini at cdmtc.it wrote:

> Hi,
>  I put this on my named.conf file :
>
> zone "192/192.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa" {
>      type master;
>      file "x.y.z";
> };
>
> And the following line on my "x.y.z" file :
>
> 221  IN   PTR  pc.domain.com.
>
> but when I isssue
>
> nslookup x.y.z.221 I got the following error :
>
> **** ns.domain.com can't find x.y.z.221: Non-existent host/domain
>
> So what's wrong ? When I reload the named I don't get any error message in my
> /var/log/messages ... the zone is loaded correctly :
> master zone "192/192.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded
>
> Any help , please ?
> Regards.
>
> Stefano.
>
> Per:  comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> cc:    (ccr: Stefano Franchini/CDM Tecnoconsulting)
> Oggetto:  Re: Reverse delegation on bind 8.2.2
>
> sfranchini at cdmtc.it wrote:
> >
> > Hello to all,
> >          our ISP gave us the following range x.y.z.192/192 and we need to
> >          set up reverse mapping. I did it with BIND 4.x just putting the
> >          following
> >          statement in my named.boot file
> >
> >          primary 192/192.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa file.db.rev
> >
> >          But now we have moved to BIND 8.2.2 and I don't know how to do the
> >          same !!!! Can anyone help me ???
>
> No problem Stephano ;-)
>
> just put something like this in your named.conf file:
>
> zone "192/192.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa" {
>      type master;
>      file "file.db.rev";
>      }
>
> You should consider to have a look the online BIND 8 documentation
> available at ISC, http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/index.html
>
> Ciao.