Search Again: Re: Is there an EASY way to create a reverse zone under 3.5.3 From: Men & Mice Support Date: Sunday, July 13, 2003 Time: 1:49:12 pm There are two different Assistants. Use the Assistant when creating a new zone, not the Assistant you find within a zone window. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 12:26 AM -0600 7/13/03, F. Alfredo Rego wrote: >I just upgraded from 2.x to 3.5.3 and I could not find an >obvious way to AUTOMATICALLY create an entire reverse zone >for an existing domain (something that is VERY easy to do >under 2.x). > >For example, Chris Buxton reported eons ago: > >>o Open QuickDNS Pro Admin. >>o From the File menu, select New.... >>o In the resulting dialog, select Use Domain Assistant and hit OK. >>o In panel 2 of the assistant, select Reverse Domain. >>o In panel 3, select Create a classless reverse domain. >... > > >I always took full advantage of this 2.x functionality and I can't find >the equivalent under 3.5.3. > >The documentation in whatisareversezone.htm (and in QuickDNS Help) >advertises "What is a Reverse Zone? Why Do I Care? How do I Make One?" >but doesn't mention HOW to make an entire reverse zone AUTOMATICALLY. > >The assistant seems to offer only the creation of a new RESOURCE >record. I can also manually INSERT a single PTR record. This is OK, >but certainly not good enough for a zone with lots of records. > >How do I "refresh" THE ENTIRE reverse zone for a given domain, >without having to do EACH record (either by hand or via the assistant)? > > >Thank you, > >Alfredo

Messages In This Thread: Is there an EASY way to create a reverse zone under 3.5.3 by F. Alfredo Rego on Jul 12, 2003 at 11:30:28 pm Re: Is there an EASY way to create a reverse zone under 3.5.3 by Men & Mice Support on Jul 13, 2003 at 1:49:12 pm Re: Is there an EASY way to create a reverse zone under 3.5.3 by F. Alfredo Rego on Jul 13, 2003 at 4:53:13 pm Re: Is there an EASY way to create a reverse zone under 3.5.3 by Men & Mice Support on Jul 14, 2003 at 12:31:20 pm