Network and subnet names

[John Hascall]

> Just out of interest, what do people do with their network and subnet
> names?
> 
> I'm putting the names of networks and subnets in an A-Record in the
> appropriate forward zone with the network/subnet mask as the "address",
> and putting a PTR record in the appropriate reverse zone that points to
> the name. This seem to me to be delivering the most important aspects of
> a network/subnet.
> 
> It's been suggested that I should have PTR records in the appropriate
> forward zones too, with network/subnet names pointing to their
> in-addr.arpa names.

Are you talking about stuff like this:

% nslookup 129.186.1.0
Name:    network-129-186-1-0--24.iastate.edu
Address:  129.186.1.0

Personally, if it was up to me, I'd do something like:

    network-LOCATION.iastate.edu


John