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Re: How do I take over reverse lookups?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Wed Nov 11 03:02:05 1998

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:57:30 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, jb@reachtheplanet.com
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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jb wrote:

> the following is an example of
> how queries for reverse (PTR) records are forwarded to my nameservers:
> 
> 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa    86400           IN      NS
> ns.mynameserver.com.
> 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa    86400           IN      NS
> ns2.mynameserver.com.
> 
> that means that any requests for the reverse records for IP 192.168.1.1
> will use the nameserver ns.mynameserver.com.  should that fail, it will try
> ns2*.

Yes, but that is for an entire class C block.  How can they
forward reverse queries for a subnet???

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