Search Again: Re: Feature Request: name pools From: Jon Wiederspan Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 Time: 6:41:00 pm > >This is probably a proprietary feature; I know I haven't seen it in >>the RFCs (but I could have missed it): >> >>I would really like to be able to enter an IP range and have every >>reverse lookup on that range match a single name (or even random >>names based on a name pattern like "machineXX.nsd.org" where XX is a >>random string). >> >>Why? More and more sites will refuse to let you have access or >>download software (especially encryption software that is export >>restricted) unless they can do a reverse lookup to identify your >>domain. Making an entry for every one of the 8000 computers on our >>network is obviously a waste of time. Even something that >>automatically generates the tables is a pain because it will > >eventually require maintenance of some sort. > >Sounds like a Bad Idea.? Running a large network requires maintenance. >Period. I can only imagine the error reports generated by DNS Expert. :-) Depends on how it is implemented. As far as DNS Expert would know, there would be an entry for ever machine. I can see where doing that would be a major change to the server software, though, because you now have to intercept every request and answer from virtual tables instead of the actual files. >Why not include a feature to auto-update the PTR records, when the A record >is modified. Tie the PTR to the A record. Yes, a big improvement to the Admin package would suffice. For example, you could tie addresses together as a serially-generated range of A records to maintain the original pool and then it could auto-generate the PTR records when you tell it to update. I'm not sure it would require less development time, since big changes would be needed to the Admin interface to make it work well (like the ability to hide/show portions of the table that represent a pool of addresses) but it would avoid any server-side problems. Then they could tie DNS Expert into the admin package so it automatically does a review of the changes before they are implemented to detect potential errors... Jon ==================================================== Jon Wiederspan jon@comvista.com http://www.comvista.com/ Human Chaos Theory: Small children in a clean room can effect very large changes in the cleanliness of the room.

Messages In This Thread: Feature Request: name pools by Jon Wiederspan on Jun 16, 1999 at 4:29:00 pm Re: Feature Request: name pools by Jerry Pasker-System Admin. on Jun 16, 1999 at 5:35:00 pm Re: Feature Request: name pools by Jon Wiederspan on Jun 16, 1999 at 6:41:00 pm Re: Feature Request: name pools by Aaron Lynch on Jun 16, 1999 at 9:12:00 pm Re: Feature Request: name pools by Steven Henderson on Jun 16, 1999 at 10:05:00 pm Re: Feature Request: name pools by Jerry Pasker-System Admin. on Jun 16, 1999 at 10:49:00 pm Re: Feature Request: name pools by Men & Mice Support on Jun 17, 1999 at 5:53:00 pm