[Techtalk] Reverse DNS confusion

[Dushyanth Harinath]

Hi , 

 * On 23'th May 2002 12:29:16 PM <nancy at nancygirl.net> wrote :

[....] 
> Your ISP would add this to their 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. zone file:
> 32/27. 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.	IN NS		ns1.test.com.
> 32/27. 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.	IN NS		ns2.test.com.
> 33					IN CNAME	33. 32/27. 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
> 34					IN CNAME	34. 32/27. 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
> 35					IN CNAME	35. 32/27. 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
> and so on...
> 
> 
> You would need to add this to your named.conf :
> zone "32/77. 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa"{
>     type master;
>     file "reverse";
> };
> 
> Your zone file "reverse" would contain this:
> 
> 33		IN	PTR	hosts.domain.tld.

Yep, figured that out :).

Thanks for the help.

cheers
dushyanth
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