classless delegation [Re: IP address fee??]

Fri Sep 6 15:11:05 UTC 2002

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 04:56:09PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
[snip]
> > I am doing separate zone files. Each IP delegated to me is a separate
> > zone. Now, again, what is wrong with that?
> 
> 	Technically, nothing -- at least, with the absolute latest 
> authoritative nameservers and the absolute latest recursive/caching 
> nameservers, and it doesn't seem to give much problems to modern 
> resolver libraries.
>
['it will break with lots of software']

I am very willing to believe everything that you are saying, but *what
part* of my configuration breaks those nameservers?

> >> o The reverse zone contains one or more A records
> >>     The reverse domain "192.122.109.193.in-addr.arpa." contains one
> >>     or more A records.  A records should only be placed in
> >>     forward-mapping domains.
> >
> > What A-records is it talking about? I am not seeing any.
> 
> 	They are the ones associated with your NS records.  At a 
> procedural level, PTR records are mutually exclusive with SOA & NS 
> records.

But there are no A records in that zone. Again, what A-records?

I have, by the way, enabled AXFR to the world for my reverse zones
(all 16), so feel free to have a look.

Also, I am aware that the hostmaster-address in the SOA for these
zones is bogus - I will fix that shortly.

Greetz, Peter
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