Avoiding duplicate PTR records when using $GENERATE

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Oct 23 23:55:24 UTC 2008


In message <71D4B163E575894FA5B170F10E628EC5014D6549 at Deimos.internal.commarc.co
.nz>, "Steve Brorens" writes:
> I've got range of 256 addresses, where I have valid PTRs for all
> addresses generated by:
>  
>     $GENERATE 0-255 $ PTR   123-123.123-66-$.acme.co.nz.
>  
> My problem is that there are a dozen or so addresses scattered through
> this range where I want to define specific PTR records like this:
>  
>     203    PTR    ftp.acme.co.nz.
>     4      PTR    www.acme.co.nz.
>     105    PTR    smtp.acme.co.nz.
>  
> However, this means that these addresses get two PTR records  -
> generally A Bad Thing, especially for mailservers.
>  
> Is there a way to use $GENERATE to just "fill the gaps"?

	No.
  
>  - steve
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