Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:56:26 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: private/internal db file question... Message-ID: <20050623005626.GB1523@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20050623001343.GA63523@thought.org> References: <20050623001343.GA63523@thought.org>
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On 2005-06-22 17:13, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:
> Folks,
> After years or trying, I may have my private/internal DNS db files
> working. From a colo machine I can reach my internal servers. One
> small question for the DNS wizards out there:: are the last
> ".in-addr.arpa" lines considered good-form? Can I blow them away or
> uncomment them?
Strip them off.
You didn't specify which zone this file was a database for, but looking at the
commented lines it seems like it's the reverse resolution database for
10.0.0.0/8 (your internal network). DNS records in zone files like this one
refer to addresses "relative" to the zone itself, which is probably defined as
the following in your named.conf configuration file:
zone "0.0.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
type master;
file "master/10.0.0.rev";
};
This definition of the zone in named.conf declares that addresses of the form
10.0.0.X will be looked up as PTR records of X in the file "master/10.0.0.rev"
under you named server root directory, i.e.
ADDRESS DB-FILE RECORD
10.0.0.1 master/10.0.0.rev 1
10.0.0.2 master/10.0.0.rev 2
...
10.0.0.254 master/10.0.0.rev 254
Usually, the most tricky part is grasping that "1.0.0.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA." is
what BIND looks up to find the name (or names) associated with the address
10.0.0.1 (note the reversed byte order of the address parts).
> ;name ttl class type data
> 1 IN PTR localhost
> 1 IN PTR sage
> 220 IN PTR ethic
> 247 IN PTR tao
> 249 IN PTR zen
These look mostly ok, but you may want to fix the following:
- "localhost" is usually assigned to 127.0.0.1, not 10.0.0.1
- the "IN" column is *NOT* the TTL (time to live) of a record
> ;
> ;; below may not be necessary
> ;
True; they're not.
> ;;;220.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ethic.thought.org.
> ;;;247.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR tao.thought.org.
> ;;;249.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR zen.thought.org.
>
> ;;;220.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ethic
> ;;;247.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR tao
> ;;;249.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR zen
Note that O'Reilly has an excellent book ("DNS & BIND") which you may
find immensely useful in setting up practically any sort of DNS server.
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