Delegating in-addr.arpa lookup

[Danny Mayer]

		Interestingingly this RFC (2317) is not included in the rfc directory of any
  of the 8.2.x sources or the 9.x sources.

			Danny

At 07:46 AM 12/18/00 +1100, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
>
>> 
>> I'm new to bind and DNS in general.
>> 
>> I have small subnet asigned to me by my isp (nnn.nnn.nnn/29)
>> I'm trying to delegate reverse address lookups for my domain to the
>> nameserver of my isp,
>> since I donot own the entire network.
>> 
>> Is there a way to do this using bind 8.
>
>	See RFC 2317, Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation, for how to do
>	this.  Your ISP may also have a preferred naming scheme (RFC 2317
>	supports multiple ways to do this) so contact them after reading
>	through RFC 2317.
>
>	My prefered delegation is to <start>-<stop>.XX.YY.ZZ.IN-ADDR.ARPA
>	as it gets around bugs in old resolvers.
>	e.g.
>		1.2.3.136/29 => 136-143.3.2.1.IN-ADDR.ARPA
>
>	Note you need 4 octets to describe a /29, you had three in your
>	description of the problem.
>
>	Mark
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