Reverse DNS, Delegation, ISP not helping?

[Michael Kjorling]

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RFC 2317 does not mandate any particular zone name format - it leaves
that to whoever implements the principle laid out to decide. I have
seen start.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa, start.start.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa,
start/masklen.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa, start-end.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa, ...
and of course it can be pointed outside of in-addr.arpa as well if
need be for some reason. However, the RFC mentions start/masklen as
one possible format for the zone name.

I personally like it - others have different opinions, as searching
this list's (or news group's) archives will show you.


Michael Kjörling


On Mar 2 2002 09:46 -0800, Jeff wrote:

> > The name of the domain that has been delegated to you is
> > 128.53.20.66.in-addr.arpa, not 128/27.53.20.66.in-addr.arpa.  Get rid of
> > the /27 in the zone statement.
>
>      Bellsouth.net provided me w/the same suggestion/information late
> yesterday.  I just assumed the /27 was necessary to denote my
> particular subnet - I gathered this from reading RFC 2317 and several
> other newsgroup postings regarding issues like mine.  Is it now common
> (if ever) to no longer to use the / or - notation?  I only ask as I'm
> like to completely understand things - I can't cope with fixing
> something if I don't understand it completely - I feel like I've
> wasted all that time trying to figure it out :o)
>
>      Regardless, it did solve the problem and things are working!

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