>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
> To: andrea <andrea.franceschini@linet.it>
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: DNS questions
>
>
> > It all depends!
> >
> > Both syntax are correct.  It depends on whether you have an ORIGIN
> > statement.  If you do, then that origin gets appended by default to your
> > DNS names, so if you say
> >
> > ORIGIN yyy.xxx.194.in-addr.arpa.
> > 65 IN PTR .......
> >
> > the 65 line is implicitly 65.yyy.xx.194.in-addr.arpa.
>
> Ok, but what happens if  there isn't any  ORIGIN statement ?
>
> And ,Let imagine that we have a full Class C Address-pool.
> We assign this Pool to 2 different ISP (0-63) (64 - 127) the remains are
> assigned to us (128 - 255).
> Each ISP has his own NameServer.
> when we need to translate an address from 129 to 254 we use our nameserver
> and we can use something as follow in our
> name server:
>
> primary  yyy.xxx.194.in-addr.arpa.            yyy.xxx.194.dns
>
> So our named  Daemon expect to find all reverse-mapping  for 194.xxx.yyy.0
> subnet in  the file yyy.xxx.194.dns.
>
> But what happens when is required to map an address outside our netmask
(i.e
> 194.xxx.yyy.62 that is assigned to 1 ISP).?
> Local named still belive to find the records in yyy.xxx.194.dns.
> Now if i understand correctly me must add  the following lines to
> yyy.xxx.194.dns file
>
> 0.yyy.xxx.194.in-addr.arpa    IN    NS     ns.firstisp.dns.
> 64.yyy.xxx.194.in-addr.arpa    IN    NS    ns.secondisp.dns.
>
> And
>
> At First ISP:
> named.boot:
>
> primary 0.yyy.xxx.in-addr.arpa            0.yyy.xxx.dns
   Sorry i mistyped this ,what i really meaned was

    primary 0.yyy.xxx.194.in-addr.arpa    0.yyy.xxx.dns

>
> 0.yyy.xxx.in-addr.arpa:
> 1            IN         PTR            host1.firstisp.dns
> ...
> 63            IN        PTR            host63.firstisp.dns
>
> At Second ISP:
>
> named.boot:
> primary 64.yyy.xxx.in-addr.arpa            64.yyy.xxx.dns
Sorry i mistyped this ,what i really meaned was

    primary 64.yyy.xxx.194.in-addr.arpa    64.yyy.xxx.dns

>
> 64.yyy.xxx.in-addr.arpa:
> 65            IN         PTR            host65.secondisp.dns
> ...
> 126            IN        PTR            host126.secondisp.dns
>
>
> May this config work?
> If not, what is the correct configuration? and where's wrong?
> Thanks!
>
>