Search Again: Re: Feature Request: name pools From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 Time: 5:53:00 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. > >Any chance? It's in the RFCs already. It's called a wildcard. *.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. PTR default.host.com. The asterisk will match anything (pretty much), so long as there isn't any other record for that name. In other words, it's overridden by more specific matches. I don't remember which RFC exactly, but it's one of the earliest ones to define DNS. 10xx, I think. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com http://www.menandmice.com

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