reverse zone for 192.168.x.y not working but 192.168.100.x does

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a6855m$qr1 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,  <r_no at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I try to setup a DNS to answer all the 192.168 class B,
>here is my config:
># LL, FR, ISDN
>zone "168.192.in-addr.arpa" in {
>        type master;
>        file "db.192.168";
>};
>
>
>and here is my db.192.168 (well part of it)
>$TTL 86400      ; 1 day
>@   SOA  darkstar.ln.x.com. postmaster.darkstar.ln.x.com.
>(
>                                29020207   ; serial
>                                10800      ; refresh (3 hours)
>                                3600       ; retry (1 hour)
>                                604800     ; expire (1 week)
>                                3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
>                                )
>                        NS      darkstar.ln.x.com.
>
>
>;this line was for test purpose
>100.1   PTR             s0-1-b1
>; in case this one dosen't work
>192.168.100.1   PTR             s0-1-b1
>192.168.100.2   PTR             s2/0-1-v1
>192.168.100.5   PTR             s0/0-1-z2
>192.168.100.6   PTR             s2/0-2-v1
>192.168.100.9   PTR             s0-1-l1

This should be:

1.100 PTR ...
2.100 PTR ...

or:

1.100.168.192.in-addr.arpa. PTR ...
2.100.168.192.in-addr.arpa. PTR ...

Also, you need to put fully-qualified hostnames.

>His their a way to make it works or does I have to create a domain for
>every 192.168.x I have (192.168.100, 192.168.110, 192.168.120,
>192.168.130, 192.168.140, 192.168.150, 192.168.160), I use mostly for
>Leased line, Frame Relay, ISDN, PSTN and tunnel configuration, and I
>don'0t want to have 7 diffrent file, to mutch think to do  !
>Anyone can help ?

There's no problem with putting it all in the same zone, but you have to
get the syntax right in the first place.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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