Two RFC2317 Questions
Barry Finkel
b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Tue Apr 9 20:20:51 UTC 2002
I have two questions about RFC 2317; this is my first attempt at using
that RFC. We have been assigned by
swbell.net
a subnet of
241.60.216.in-addr.arpa.
Specifically we have been assigned addresses 1-127. Other clients
have been assigned the addresses 128-254. I followed RFC 2317
and I set up this on our master BIND 8.2.5-REL server. First the
zone definition in named.conf, then the actual zone:
----------
zone "0/25.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa." {
type master;
file "able.rev";
};
----------
$TTL 86400 ; default time to live is 1 day
$ORIGIN 0/25.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa.
;$INCLUDE named.local
; named.soa
; define start of authority, name servers and loopback
; As per BIND 4.9 operations guide, serial number format is now
; "YYYYMMDDNN" where NN is the daily sequence number.
;
@ IN SOA dns0.anl.gov. hostmaster.anl.gov. (
2002040800 ; Serial
7200 ; Refresh - 2 hours
3600 ; Retry - 1 hour
1209600 ; Expire - 14 days
604800 ) ; Neg. cache - 7 days
IN NS dns1.anl.gov.
IN NS dns2.anl.gov.
IN NS nsx.lbl.gov.
IN NS ns2.es.net.
;
17 IN PTR csgax.able.anl.gov.
<<I have omitted the rest of the zone here.>>
----------
What swbell has set up on their nameservers (ns1.swbell.net and
ns2.swbell.net) is:
----------
; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @ns1.swbell.net 241.60.216.in-addr.arpa AXFR
;; QUESTIONS:
;; 241.60.216.in-addr.arpa, type = AXFR, class = IN
241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 SOA ns1.swbell.net.
postmaster.swbell.net. (
200204090 ;serial
3600 ;refresh
900 ;retry
604800 ;expire
7200 ) ;minim
0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 NS dns1.anl.gov.
0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 NS dns2.anl.gov.
0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 NS ns2.es.net.
0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 NS nsx.lbl.gov.
0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 NS ns1.swbell.net.
0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 NS ns2.swbell.net.
1.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 CNAME 1.0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa.
2.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 CNAME 2.0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa.
3.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 CNAME 3.0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa.
<<I have omitted records 4-123 here.>>
124.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 CNAME 124.0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa.
125.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 CNAME 125.0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa.
126.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 CNAME 126.0.241.60.216.in-addr.arpa.
----------
The two questions I have are these:
1) I have "/25" in my zone per the RFC, but swbell does not. Is this
going to cause confusion or cause DNS not to function correctly?
If so, do I have to remove my "/25", or does swbell have to add
"/25"?
2) swbell has included in their zone my four nameservers as well as
their two nameservers. I have only my four nameservers in my zone.
As swbell has not assigned me the whole Class-C subnet of their
Class-B, they have the other half of that Class-B on their servers;
that is why they include their nameservers as well as mine.
My reading of the RFC leads me to believe that the zone should
not reference the
ns[12].swbell.net
servers because they have delegated the 127 addresses to my servers.
What should be in the NS records?
Thanks.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Barry S. Finkel
Electronics and Computing Technologies Division
Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277
9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601
Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel at anl.gov
Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994
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