Reverse zone delegation

[Thor Kottelin]

BIND Users Mailing List wrote:

> From: Spirovski Bozhidar <bozidar at mt.net.mk>

> I am trying to delegate the reverse zone 195.26.151.0 subnet mask
> 255.255.255.0
>      to the server arthur.camelot.domain.net (subdomain
> camelot.domain.net)
>      on the master dns for domain domain.net in the named.conf I added a
> zone file definition:
>       zone "151.26.195.in-addr.arpa" in {
>              type master;
>              file "hosts151.rev";
>      };
> What what should the zone file contain to delegate the reverse zone?
> Please explain with an example.

Is the forward domain really domain.net, or are you just subjecting us to
a riddle?

Since you say you want to delegate 151.26.195.in-addr.arpa, I assume
you're already authoritative for 26.195.in-addr.arpa. In this case, you
shouldn't set up a zone for 151.26.195.in-addr.arpa yourself; that needs
to be done on the server you're delegating to. Instead, the parent zone
would contain a line such as this one:

151.26.195.in-addr.arpa.	NS	arthur.camelot.domain.net.

arthur.camelot.domain.net would then need to be set up with a normal
reverse zone for 151.26.195.in-addr.arpa, such as:

;hosts151.rev (151.26.195.in-addr.arpa)
;$TTL	86400
@	SOA	arthur.camelot.domain.net. hostmaster.arthur.camelot.domain.net. (
		2000012401 28800 7200 604800 86400)
	NS	arthur.camelot.domain.net.

...plus any PTR records.

Thor

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