Search Again: Re: allocating 1 IP From: Mia''s Virtual Post Office Date: Friday, April 7, 2000 Time: 9:41:53 am Men & Mice Support said: Thank you as usual Chris! I knew how to do the classless subnet delegation (which you explained to me well over a year, maybe two years ago. However, I was unsure of how to do it for one IP. thanx again! Much appreciated. >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. jer www.hostdrive.com "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! Hey, I bought my Apple Stock @ $18, WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!!!

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