> And, of course, add all the reverse (PTR) records, as well...

Well, let's not confuse the issue here. PTR records don't go into the
regular zone file. If you want to set up reverse DNS, create entries like
so in /etc/namedb/named.conf:


zone "131.27.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA" in {
        type master;
        file "db.216.27.131";
};

Note that the IN-ADDR.ARPA's IP part is reversed; this is an entry for
216.27.131.x, as reva is 216.27.131.50.

Then the file, /etc/namedb/db.216.27.131:


;       Reverse DNS record for sixgirls.org
;       23-October-2001 John Klos
$TTL    3600
@               IN SOA  reva.sixgirls.org.      john.sixgirls.org.      (
                20011023        ; Serial
                10800           ; Refresh after 3 hours
                3600            ; Retry after 1 hour
                604800          ; Expire after 1 week
                86400    )      : Minimum TTL of 1 day
;
;       name servers
;
                IN NS   reva.sixgirls.org.
;
;       addresses point to canonical names
;
34              IN PTR  xira.sixgirls.org.
50              IN PTR  reva.sixgirls.org.
60              IN PTR  sparcy.databit7.com.


Make sense?

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs