I strongly recommend splitting on /8 /16 and /24 boundries. With the number of zones you are talking about, doing anything else will get very confusing very quickly.

If a netblock is larger than a /24, put at the top and bottom of each /24 a comment lile explaining what size it is

For example my 10.in-addr.arpa. zone has
"; this is top of the 10/8 delegates to 10.*/16"


zone file for 230.16.10.in-addr.arpa has comment ; 10.16.230.0/23 vlan XXXX: Purpose-of-vlan-here 10.16.230.0-10.16.231.255 (512)


In this way, whoever looks at the zone, no matter how dns savvy they are, knows the size of the netblock



On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, nex6 wrote:



Hi all,

look for some info on best practices for reverse zones. I have, a pretty big IP 
space and alot of reverse zones are not created.
I want to clean it up, a few people that dont really know DNS are thinking of "super 
netting" eg a top level 10.0.0.0/16 sorta thing.

but we have 100s of defined mission critical reverse zones defined at the vlan 
level of 10.x.x.0/24...  my thinking, would be do a
discovery and create all the /24s, even if there is like 100s. instead of the 
bigger super net...


what would be the best practice and the way to go?



-Nex6

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