Reverse Mapping Part of a Class B

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a2mgu3$mme at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Martin McCormick  <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
>	We provide reverse mapping for our Class B network and
>also support a domain that occupies 8 octets of our network.
>
>	We use bind as a master dns for that domain and have the
>usual slave zone setup in our master dns for their forward records.  That
>works fine.  The interesting part of the problem is that their
>reverse map is 8 octets of our network so you can't just set up
>the same Class B IN-ADDR.ARPA zone because that duplicates our
>reverse zone.  Is there a safe way to define that range of octets
>so that it maps but doesn't break the global reverse map for our
>full Class B?
>
>	I have successfully done this octet by octet which is
>okay if there are one or two, but I don't want to build 8 reverse
>zones if I don't have to.:-)

That's the usual way to do it.

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