Reverse DNS and single IP address space

[James Earl]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Bondarenko" <vpb at indite.org>
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: "James Earl" <mtntrip at telus.net>; "Jaime" <jaime at snowmoon.com>; "James
Earl" <jdearl at telus.net>; <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space


> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:20:34AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > > zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
> > > type slave;
> > > file "s/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak";
> > > masters {
> > > 192.168.1.1;
> > > };
> > > };
> >
> > This is a slave entry.  It would be more interesting to see what the
> > master config looks like.  Anyway, this address is in an RFC 1918
> > non-routable address range.  That means it's not unique, and it's
> > completely meaningless on the global Internet.  In fact, I have that
> > address here :-)
> >
>
> When I see a non-routable IP on a mailing list, I usually assume that
> whoever is asking the question doesn't want to tell what the real IP
> address is (although why I'm not exactly sure.)
>
> James - if that's not the case, I hope your ISP isn't charging you for
> the extra IP :-)

Ya, those were just examples for my question, taken directly from the DNS
section of the FreeBSD Handbook (or named.conf for that matter).

Thanks again for all the help.

James