I think I'm just going to stick with the 4 separate zones. That was an
interesting article though, I appreciate you passing it on.

- Sean

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Jeff Bunting <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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.
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> Try this article:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/174419
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> Jeff
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>  On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>  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.
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>>  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.
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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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