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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS setup
Date: 13 Apr 1997 21:51:27 GMT
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In article <zUEB6MD4F99aoz5@rb.xs.use.ch>,
borki@rb.xs.use.ch (Reto Burkhalter) writes:
>>> Brian Somers
>>> 11.04.1997
>
>
>> I wonder can someone explain what the "primary" line in named.boot
>> should look like for a network with a netmask that doesn't end on
>> an octet boundry.
>>
>> For a class C, I'd have
>>
>> primary my.domain my.zone.file
>> primary 1.2.3.IN-ADDR.ARPA my.rev.file
>>
>> If I have a netmask of 255.255.255.128 for example, how should the
>> IN-ADDR.ARPA line read ?
>
> This is really a problem. There's a "hack" with PTR records.
>
> A pointer to a solution may be found at ftp://nic.nordu.net,
> the document is called 'draft-ietf-dnsind-classless-inaddr-00.txt'
thanks, I found it in the "internet-drafts" subdirectory.
> I had the same problem (but I was a lazy guy: I ordered the second
> half of the class C net :-) ).
>
>
> Reto
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
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