Search Again: Re: reverse domain in secondary DNS? From: Cameron Knowlton Date: Monday, January 3, 2000 Time: 8:34:00 pm >At 11:29 AM -0700 1/3/2000, Cameron Knowlton wrote: >>I'm currently helping others here in Canada clean up their DNS, and >>I had one question about reverse domains. > >Do you think Canada would like to participate in our "Spring Cleaning" project? Details are at http://sc.menandmice.com/. absolutely! in fact, i'd suggest making it a contest... canadian's love a good contest... especially against each other. in Canada, Calgary is the most wired city (I'm a Calgarian myself), and Toronto's second... there's always been a strong (but fun) rivalry between Calgary and Toronto. (east vs. west, basically :o) how about a contest to pit Calgary against Toronto in the Spring Cleaning benchmark? shouldn't be too hard to get the word out, and gather participation, and would be be incredible exposure for the SC effort. (and for MenAndMice, of course ;o) I'd be guessing that other cities in Canada just might follow, and oh, how the US hates to lose to Canada :o) [as I'm in Calgary this winter, the 'snowball' effect is rather predominant at the moment.] > >>Question: does the reverse domain (e.g. z.y.x.w.in-addr.arpa) need >>to be entered into their secondary DNS computer's Secondary window? > >That depends. > >The reverse zone is separate from the domain zone. It's possible that it is delegated to different servers than their domain. (DNS Expert's DNS Query tool is highly useful for determining this.) > >Every server listed in the delegation records should be authoritative for the reverse zone. As usual, for easiest maintenance, one of these should be configured as primary and the rest as secondary. so then, assuming that their reverse zone *is* delegated to them (it is), you're saying the reverse domain: z.y.x.in-addr.arpa. *should* be listed in the secondary dns' Secondary table? (note: z.y.x.in-addr.arpa. correction from previous typo) cheers! Cameron Knowlton cameronk@macgods.com _________________________________________________ Cameron Knowlton cameronk@macgods.com Mac Technical Support Web Design & Marketing tel (403) 237-7254 Calgary, Alberta, Canada ICQ 8209755 http://www.macgods.com _________________________________________________ ----- making the web a better neighbourhood -----

Messages In This Thread: reverse domain in secondary DNS? by Cameron Knowlton on Jan 3, 2000 at 6:29:00 pm Re: reverse domain in secondary DNS? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 3, 2000 at 6:51:00 pm Re: reverse domain in secondary DNS? by Cameron Knowlton on Jan 3, 2000 at 8:34:00 pm Re: reverse domain in secondary DNS? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 3, 2000 at 10:10:00 pm