Re: consolidating in-addr.arpa data

2023-09-16 Thread Greg Choules via bind-users
>From the correct mail alias! On Sat, 16 Sept 2023 at 21:50, Greg Choules wrote: > Hi Ged. > 172.16/12 is not a special case. The whole problem (IMHO) stems from how > humans have chosen to represent both IP addresses (v4; v6 are different and > actually a little easier) AND DNS domain names;

Re: consolidating in-addr.arpa data

2023-09-16 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 10:22:26 +0100 (BST) "G.W. Haywood via bind-users" wrote: > Hi there, > ... >I'd be surprised if the OP couldn't manage with 2^20 IPs in a segment - > but then I guess he does work in the .gov domain. ^^^ The OP's contact

Re: consolidating in-addr.arpa data

2023-09-16 Thread G.W. Haywood via bind-users
Hi there, On Sat, 16 Sep 2023, Greg Choules wrote: On Sat, 16 Sep 2023, G.W. Haywood wrote: ... > Is there a reason not to split the /8 into two /9s or something like that? ... Although it is technically possible to do reverses on non-octet boundaries (for example, see

Re: consolidating in-addr.arpa data

2023-09-16 Thread Greg Choules via bind-users
Hi. Although it is technically possible to do reverses on non-octet boundaries (for example, see https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2317.txt) it is a complete pita, in my experience. Personally I would not head down that path. Stick to /8, /16 or /24. Cheers, Greg On Sat, 16 Sept 2023 at 09:20, G.W.

Re: consolidating in-addr.arpa data

2023-09-16 Thread G.W. Haywood via bind-users
Hi there, On Sat, 16 Sep 2023, John Thurston wrote: A host which auto-registers in MS DNS, creates an A in foo.alaska.gov and PTR in whatever.10.in-addr.arpa. MS DNS is happy to publish those. But the DNS system running on BIND also has a whatever.10.in-addr.arpa zone. So if I want to

Re: consolidating in-addr.arpa data

2023-09-16 Thread Greg Choules via bind-users
Hi John. Sorry if this sounds picky, but a dot out of place in this game is the difference between success and crash-n-burn. Please can you show me EXACTLY what ...10.in-addra.arpa zones you have in both sets of DNS? >From previous work with AD clients I think that, if it doesn't already exist,