Want to do my own reverse.

[Thor Kottelin]

BIND Users Mailing List wrote:

> From: "mike at snix" <mmullins at infinitycomputer.com>

> Before I have my ISP delegate the reverse DNS for my subnet to me, is there
> anything I need to change on my server?  I'm running RedHat 6.1.  Do i need
> to load something in my named.conf to tell it to do reverse?

Yes, define a zone. Assuming BIND 8, the named.conf entry would look
something like this:

zone "0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" IN {
	type master;
	file "192.168.0.db";
};

Obviously you'll also need to create the relevant zone file, which might
look something like:

$TTL	86400
@	SOA	ns.domain.example. hostmaster.domain.example.	(
		2000021301 28800 7200 604800 86400		)
	NS	ns.domain.example. 
	NS	ns.isp.example. 
1	PTR	host.domain.example.

If your subnet is smaller than a /24, you need to consult with your ISP as
to which method they will be using to kludge-delegate it to you. If you
have at least a /24, you can set reverse DNS up in the classic way.

Thor

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