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Date:  Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:49:26 -0800
From:  Herb Rubin <herbr (at mark) pfinders.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:04207] Re: DNS subnetted (non-octet) zones
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Dogsbody,

Thanks for the response... But, this is a special kind of reverse
lookup. That people with small blocks of IP's would use (I have 5 IPs).
Maybe we need an enhancement request?

Classless delegation:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2317.html

The ISP can then assign you a block of IPs and let you deal with the PTR
records just for your block. I've done it by hand in FC1 and BIND but
not with BQ and the GUI.

Herb


On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 13:56, Dogsbody wrote:
> > How can I do DNS subnetted reverse lookup zones in the BQ GUI?
> > My ISP said I could do my own reverse lookups if my DNS server can do
> > it.
> 
> Reverse lookups are done in exactly the same way as normal lookups, just 
> backwards :-)
> 
> In the same way that you (your registrar) would allocate a domain name 
> to you and point it to your DNS for you to then set all the host info in 
> that domain.  Your ISP would allocate an IP block to you and then point 
> that IP block to your DNS should you wish.
> 
> Reverse lookup records are called PTR records to just go to the GUI and 
> Network Services, DNS, Edit Primary Services, Add Record... Reverse 
> Address (PTR) Record.
> 
> I hope this helps
> 
> Dan
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Herb Rubin                 Pathfinders Software
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