I did this many moons ago under NT4.  Took a couple of tries to get the
syntax correct, but worked fine for internet facing DNS.

Try this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/174419

Jeff

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Sean Martin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > However, I'm unsure about how the reverse lookup zone was created.
> There's a
> > single reverse lookup zone 69.208.in-addr.arpa.
>
>   Hmmm.  I believe that means your DNS server will be claiming
> authority for 208.69.0.0/16.  So perhaps ARIN's "common cause"
> boilerplate was correct after all.
>
> > There doesn't appear to be a way to specify the zone as 208.69.0.0/22.
>
>   Yah, I don't think you can do that with DNS.  The <in-addr.arpa.>
> branch is structured around the "reverse dotted quad" notation.  I
> think I read once about a later RFC which introduced something to
> support classless delegation, but even that still used the classful
> DNS structures to "hook in", and I'm not sure the RFC was ever adopted
> anyway.  I'm pretty sure MS-DNS doesn't support it in any event.
>
> > Should I create separate reverse lookup zones for each class C range?
>
>   I think so.  I've never used MS-DNS for Internet-facing DNS service
> myself, but that's what I think you need to do.  That's how I do our
> /24 subnets of 10/8 internally, FWIW.  The MS-DNS GUI doesn't group
> them into a "10.x" folder or anything like that.  Under the "Reverse
> Lookup Zones" folder, I've got folders for "10.0.0.x Subnet",
> "10.0.10.x Subnet", and so on, all at the same level.  But we're
> running Win2K; might be different in the 2003 GUI.
>
> -- Ben
>
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