Forward zone not working

[Alan Clegg]

On 5/16/16, 5:35 PM, "MegaBrutal" <megabrutal at gmail.com> wrote:

>2016-05-16 19:45 GMT+02:00 Alan Clegg <alan at clegg.com>:
>> On 5/16/16, 1:30 PM, "MegaBrutal" <bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org on
>> behalf of megabrutal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I want to have valid reverse & forward hostnames set up
>>>for this /64 subnet.
>>
>> This is silly.  Don't do this.
>
>Why?

Because it's too f'n big and nobody cares about PTR records if they aren't
associated with an address that is actively doing something (i.e., outbound
e-mail service).

>Most ISPs set up reverse & forward domain names for pool addresses.

In IPv4 space, sure.

>OK, I'm not an ISP, but it really seems to be a widely accepted and
>endorsed policy, to the point that addresses not having a reverse DNS
>often treated as suspicious.

I promise that the 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses in your /64
aren't doing anything interesting enough for a PTR record to matter.

AlanC