Reverse IPv6 lookups with dynamic updates

[Steven LatrŽe]

Stefan Puiu schreef:
>
> You can only use nsupdate to add records to an already existing zone. 
> So you would need to create the zones first.
>
And is there a way to create these zones dynamically? Sorry if I'm 
asking stupid questions, I'm very new in all this

steven

> On 12/16/05, *Steven LatrŽe* < steven.latre at ugent.be 
> <mailto:steven.latre at ugent.be>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     I'm experiencing some extreme performance loss with a Corba
>     application
>     since I installed bind. The reason I installed bind was to speed
>     up the
>     application (there was some trouble with the dns server of my test
>     network giving the wrong IP to the Corba naming server).
>     Now since the IPv6 addresses of my machines change often I'm using
>     dynamic update (TSIG and the nsupdate tool) to register the DNS
>     records
>     in bind. For now, I'm only adding AAAA records. I'm guessing that the
>     reason my Corba application slows down is because he can't perform a
>     reverse lookup (I'm not sure that the Corba Naming Service does a
>     reverse lookup but it's my best shot).
>
>     Now, I want to make sure that reverse lookups are also possible.
>     Before
>     installing bind I knew practically nothing about all this. I've done
>     some searching on the web but can't really find an answer. So what I
>     want to do is adding a simple PTR record (right?) to the DNS
>     server with
>     the nsupdate tool.
>     The only extra difficulty (I think) is that my IPv6 addresses can be
>     realy everything, I don't have a predefined network id or
>     something like
>     that. However, in all the sites I found in google the tutorials
>     mention
>     that I need to define this somehow.
>
>     Can someone help me with this?
>
>     Steven
>
>
>