[Pdns-users] Re: in.addr-arpa delegation

Max Clark max.clark at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 17:08:22 UTC 2006


Not to mention in this case a reverse lookup on 192.168.64.1 will fail
because the server thinks it is authoratitive even though it is
outside of the range.

On 2/23/06, Max Clark <max.clark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given an allocation from ARIN like 192.168.0.0/18 I know I can create the zone:
>
> 168.192.in-addr.arpa
>
> and inside it make the records:
>
> 1 NS ns1.foo.com
> 1 NS ns2.foo.com
>
> and get what I want - I just can't believe that there isn't a "better"
> way to do this.
>
> Max
>
> On 2/23/06, bert hubert <bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:18:44PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > > > ns1 and ns2.foo.com can run any nameserver they want, without being
> > > > forced to use any bind specific hacks.
> > >
> > > RFC 2317 is absolutely not BIND-specific and it runs fine with nsd.
> >
> > The / chosen in the RFC 2317 examples is highly unfortunate, as '/' is not
> > part of the DNS alphabet, nor is '_'. If you read '-' everywhere for '/',
> > RFC 2317 is a fine document.
> >
> > PowerDNS 2.9.19 overzealously refuses to answer queries for domains with a
> > '/' in them, in SVN this has been fixed already, as '/' is rather benign and
> > sees wide use.
> >
> >        Bert
> >
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