punster@??? (James P. Roberts) writes:
> Reverse lookup need not be done in batches of 256. There are
> well-known (well, at least published) methods of setting up
> reverses for smaller blocks. See Bind 9 users group; Cricket Liu's
> DNS & Bind textbook, etc. But try explaining this to a big
> company that doesn't really care... (No kidding, I emailed them
> chapter and page number, and ISBN number of the textbook!)
Nice little set of hacks there - but I guess what doesn't fit into their DNS
provisioning system aint gonna happen, even though there is a way (aka 'vi')
to do it. Just not worth the hassle.
This way, with a sufficiently large pool of customer IPs, delegated all over
the place, one single $GENERATE is all they'll want or need to maintain for
PTR records, rather than sub-delegating /27 or smaller blocks and letting
you run your own rDNS.
You might decide to pay them extra so that they'll maintain PTR records on
their zonefiles for you.
-srs
