Search Again: Re: Setting up reverse domain for subnet only. From: Mia''s Virtual Post Office Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 Time: 1:44:00 am Rob Thiemann said: >Hello All, > >Ok, I'm new at this, and since I don't have a whole block of >addresses to myself, I've been given the ability to manage the >reverse DNS for my subnet only. Which is kind of cool. > >But the thing is, I have to enter some entries that QuickDNS doesn't >exactly care for. Follows are the instructions I was given: > >For reverse DNS you need to put a entry in your named.boot file that >goes: typical... There is no named.boot file.. > >primary 32.201.209.in-addr.arpa db.209.201.32 > >Then in whatever directory you have all your zone files in you'll need >to >create entries like this: > >130 PTR alice.netshak.com. >131 PTR hookah.netshak.com. >132 PTR madhatter.netshak.com. >133 PTR whiterabbit.netshak.com. > >I'm guessing that this block really looks like this in QuickDNS: > >130.41.201.209.in-addr.arpa PTR alice.netshak.com. >131.41.201.209.in-addr.arpa PTR hookah.netshak.com. >etc... for the rest.... > >Ok.. he's assuming I'm running linux. no biggie. Now my question is, >where do I enter what he says the first line is supposed to be? And >what kind of record does it need to be? No, he's assuming you are running BIND, and is reffering to the named.boot file in BIND. Quite simply what he needs to do is create a "shim" domain.. and then he will need to make you authoratative for that shim domain. > Let us say you have a /26 or 64 IPs. We will call your /26 200.100.20.192 Now, you will have to create an reverse record of something like: 20-yourdomain.20.100.200 where 20-yourdomain is the "shim". (again, your ISP will have to make a record for this shim domain and then make you authoratative for it) Your reverse zone should have records as follows: 192.20.100.200.in-addr.arpa. NS ns1.yournameserver.com. 192.20.100.200.in-addr.arpa. NS ns2.yourispnameserver.com. 192.20.100.200.in-addr.arpa. NS ns3.yourispnameserver.com. 193.192.20.100.200.in-addr.arpa. PTR puter.yourdomain.com 194.192.20.100.200.in-addr.arpa. PTR mail.yourdomain.com. 195.192.20.100.200.in-addr.arpa. PTR www.yourdomain.com. 196.192.20.100.200.in-addr.arpa. PTR ftp.yourdomain.com. and so on... This is a "hack" but it is pretty standard and works just fine with QDNS! jer "On a day no different than the one now dawning, Leonardo drew the first strokes of the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare wrote the first words of Hamlet, and Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony." And Windows98 Crashed!

Messages In This Thread: Setting up reverse domain for subnet only. by Rob Thiemann on Aug 12, 1999 at 1:01:00 am Re: Setting up reverse domain for subnet only. by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Aug 12, 1999 at 1:44:00 am Re: Setting up reverse domain for subnet only. by Rob Thiemann on Aug 12, 1999 at 2:15:00 am Re: Setting up reverse domain for subnet only. by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Aug 12, 1999 at 2:32:00 am Re: Setting up reverse domain for subnet only. by Rob Thiemann on Aug 12, 1999 at 2:36:00 am Re: Setting up reverse domain for subnet only. by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Aug 12, 1999 at 3:21:00 am Re: Setting up reverse domain for subnet only. by Men & Mice Support on Aug 12, 1999 at 12:22:00 pm