Forward lookup zone
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon May 10 22:47:13 UTC 2004
In article <c7oujl$17t2$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Jeff Stevens <jstevens at vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> I have a customer that appears to have a Windows AD do DDNS inserts into
> a forward lookup zone to show IP dotted decimal information, eg like below:
>
> $ORIGIN 1.1.147.wheatland.COM.
> 10 900 IN A 10.1.1.147 ;Cl=2
> $ORIGIN 1.1.81.wheatland.COM.
> 10 900 IN A 10.1.1.81 ;Cl=2
>
> These 1.1.147 subdomains are getting inserted by Windows AD, so I first
> thought this was a misconfigured AD. However, I've seen my home ISP in
> NY do tricks like this, you ping an IP address and you get something
> like 1.2.3.4.roc.roadrunner.com. So, maybe this is what the AD is
> doing? Is there a proper description of this technique?
>
> Thanks...
It looks like a simple way to provide hostnames without having to
conjure up a complex naming convention -- just use the IP address as the
hostname prefix, with the domain as the suffix.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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