Search Again: Re: allocating 1 IP From: Mark S. Edwards Date: Friday, April 7, 2000 Time: 5:37:39 am Excellent, I stand corrected. I thought that this was a limitation of QuickDNS, and am always pleasantly surprised to see that an already excellent product is even better.... Thanks, Mark on 4/7/00 4:34 AM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: > At 5:03 PM -0400 4/6/00, Mark S. Edwards wrote: >> I dont think you can with QuickDNS. I think thats one of the limitations. >> >> Chris, can you verify? > > Not true. This can be done using a classless subnet delegation. (Said > procedure is normally done for subnets, as in blocks that would be > routed to a particular network, but it can also be applied to > arbitrary portions of a class C subnet.) > > However, for just one IP address, it's easier to simply allocate a > "class D subnet", i.e. a single address, as a subnet. > > In your reverse zone file, you might currently have the following record: > > 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. PTR customer.hostname. > > Simply change this to: > > 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. NS first.customer.name.server. > 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. NS second.customer.name.server. > > Then your customer would create a reverse zone file named > 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. It would have the usual SOA record, plus > the following records: > > 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. NS first.customer.name.server. > 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. NS second.customer.name.server. > 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. PTR customer.hostname. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com > Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com > Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: allocating 1 IP by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Apr 6, 2000 at 1:33:53 pm Re: allocating 1 IP by Mark S. Edwards on Apr 6, 2000 at 2:03:24 pm Re: allocating 1 IP by Men & Mice Support on Apr 7, 2000 at 1:41:42 am Re: allocating 1 IP by Mark S. Edwards on Apr 7, 2000 at 5:37:39 am Re: allocating 1 IP by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Apr 7, 2000 at 9:41:53 am Re: allocating 1 IP by Hank Chandless on Apr 7, 2000 at 10:02:20 am Re: allocating 1 IP by Men & Mice Support on Apr 7, 2000 at 11:10:12 am