Subject: Re: DNS lookup for internal adresses
To: Michael Kukat <michael@bsdfans.org>
From: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/13/2002 21:51:56
Michael Kukat writes:
>Yes! In todays classless networking, this is exactly what you have to do, and
>i also configured such a DNS thing, which was checked by RIPE afterwards and
>found to be okay. The trick is: Just create a zone for every IP address. It
>is evil with a /25 network, /27 is also lots of files, but this is the only
>way to just resolve single addresses.

You don't want to create a zone for every address, you alias the addresses
using CNAMEs into a separate zone which can then be delegated.  See RFC 2317.

>Looks strange, but is the official way to implement it.

According to who?

:: Mike ::