Delegating in-addr.arpa lookup

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

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

	It is in the BIND 8 collection of RFCs.  See doc/rfc/rfc2317.

	Mark
> 
> 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
> >--
> >Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
> >1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> >PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
> > 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com