Delegation of in-addr.arpa

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Feb 11 23:12:09 UTC 2000


In article <38a46ab1$0$83318 at SSP1NO17.highway.telekom.at>,
Peter Sima <Peter.Sima at aon.at> wrote:
>> >How do I delegate the in-addr.arpa domain, if parts of the domains lie
>> >in one networks, other parts in the other network?
>>
>> You should have two zones: 10.130.in-addr.arpa and 223.160.in-addr.arpa.
>
>Thought so, just don't really know where to put them.
>
>> Since you're using RFC 1918 addresses, though, the root servers won't
>> delegate to you.  You could configure the second nameserver as a secondary
>> server for 10.130.in-addr.arpa, or you could use "forwarders" so it
>> forwards to the first server.
>
>I thought about the forwarders option, but I considered it sort of a
>"hack".....

Do you really need to have two separate nameservers for the two networks?
If not, you just put both zones on one server, use that as the resolver for
all your hosts, and everything just works.

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