On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, you will need to put each class C network in a separate zone file. > The above example would need 4 more reverse zone files (in addition to > the 10.x one in the example). > > The one thing that may not have been explained well enough up to this > point, is you can only advertise the reverse zone if whoever gave you > the IP addresses did in fact give you administrative control of the > whole Class C (or larger) network that they are on. Eg. if your > ISP/service-provider assinged you the whole Class C, they will also need > to take care delegating the in-addr.arpa dns address space to you. That > is who the rest of the world knows to ask your nameservers for the dns > data. If your service provider only gave you control of one IP address > on each network, then they are going to want to keep contol of the zone > file. In that case they will be the ones to add your hostname to their > reverse-dns zone file or have some other method of dealing with the > issue. There are some hacks to delagate on smaller than a Class C > boundary. You will have to ask them how they handle the delagation. This helps me a lot. Thank you, very much, Wolfgang! ;) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
