You would create a /16 or /24 parent zone. For example, you could use a zone named 1.1.10.in-addr.arpa. From that zone, you would delegate the /28 reverse zone using a syntax along these lines:

0/28.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.       NS      1.other.name.server.
0/28.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.       NS      2.other.name.server.
1.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.          CNAME   1.0/28.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.
2.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.          CNAME   2.0/28.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.
[...]
14.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.         CNAME   14.0/28.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.

You can simplify the creation of the CNAME records using a $GENERATE statement:

$GENERATE 1-14 1 CNAME 1.0/28

I have omitted the origin here for brevity.

Chris Buxton
Professional Services
Men & Mice

On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:45 AM, M-lists wrote:

Apologies, I meant 10.1.1.0/28 not /24. The addresses used are arbitrary, as I don't like detailing my network topology unnecessarily. Suffice to say
we've had the */28 subnet dished out and have to work with it.

Thanks for the suggestions in your last paragraph Chris, but I didn't follow them entirely. Does anyone know the syntax to forward reverse queries for
10.1.1.1/28 on to a given host, or is it a bit more complex than with
10.1.0.0/16, as Chris' last paragraph suggests?

Thanks again,


C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Buxton [mailto:cbux...@menandmice.com]
Sent: 08 April 2009 15:24
To: Callum Millard
Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: Trouble configuring forwarders for reverse zones.

On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:00 AM, M-lists wrote:
One further thing, I'll be moving things around on our network soon,
and
this means we'll have a classless subnet soon.  So if we moved one
of our
Windows subnets to 10.1.1.0/24, how would I forward reverse queries
for this
subnet to say 10.1.1.1?

When you say "classless subnet", what do you mean? A /24 is not a
classless subnet as I understand the phrase.

If you really do mean the same thing I do when I use that phrase, a
subnet such as a /25 or /26, the first thing I would ask is why do
this? You have 10/8 to work with. If you mean a classless subnet such
as a /22 or /21, it's easier to just create the individual /24 reverse
zones than to create a classless subnet reverse zone.

In general, a classless subnet reverse zone relies on CNAME records to
"move" the PTR record owner name to a new name, in an artificial zone.
This requires a parent zone to create the CNAME records. (For zones
larger than /24, use DNAME records instead of CNAME records.) So your
BIND server might need a 10.1/16 zone, or possibly a 10.1.1/24 reverse
zone - a parent zone using the standard naming convention that can
then delegate artificial subzones elsewhere and can contain the CNAME
or DNAME records needed to rename the PTR records into the subzone.

Chris Buxton
Professional Services
Men & Mice



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