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- From: barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
- Subject: Re: Why not automatically do reverse domains?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 22:32:59 +0200
- Organization: Dept. Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
- Lines: 47
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- References: <1992Dec21.195422.19764@eecs.nwu.edu> <BzvrG3.6t4@boulder.parcplace.com> <C033uA.7CB@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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-
- In article <C033uA.7CB@ddsw1.mcs.com>,
- karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- > The other pathological case in which this is bad news is where the subnet
- > mask is not a byte-boundary. Consider the following (ACTUAL case from my
- > site):
- >
- > 192.160.127 - Class C address assigned to my domain (MCS.COM)
- >
- > Subnet mask used here: 255.255.255.128 - Note the odd alignment!
-
- Note the illegal subnet mask. You have only one bit for the subnet
- number, which means that you can have only two subnets, numbered 0 and 1.
- But subnet <all bits zero> and subnet <all bits one> are reserved
- [RFC1009, section 1.1.4] [RFC950, section 2.1]. So you don't have any
- non-reserved subnets.
-
- > However, 127.160.192.in-addr.arpa IS byte-aligned, and due to the way PTR
- > domains work (the in-addr.arpa botch) it HAS to be. Therefore, if I were to
- > delegate control of the "high order" subnet of my class "C" to someone else,
- > how would they do the PTR records?
- >
- > The answer is -- they couldn't.
-
- It's very clumsy and inconvenient, but it is possible.
-
- In a zone controlled by you, you say:
-
- 128.127.160.192.in-addr.arpa. CNAME 128.some-zone-controlled-by-them.
- 129.127.160.192.in-addr.arpa. CNAME 129.some-zone-controlled-by-them.
- 130.127.160.192.in-addr.arpa. CNAME 130.some-zone-controlled-by-them.
- etc.
-
- In a zone controlled by them, they say:
-
- 128.some-zone-controlled-by-them. PTR foo.some-other-zone.
- 129.some-zone-controlled-by-them. PTR bar.some-other-zone.
- 130.some-zone-controlled-by-them. PTR baz.some-other-zone.
- etc.
-
- Unfortunately, this method requires as many CNAME records as there are
- delegated addresses. There is no such thing as a wildcard CNAME record
- (you can put a wildcard on the left hand side, but not on the right
- hand side).
-
- --apb
- Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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