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Re: Best practice for reverse DNS records


From: "Lisciotti, Kevin" <klisciotti () UMASSP EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:23:16 -0500

Thanks to all who responded, I appreciated the feedback.


On Jan 14, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU> wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:18:01 -0500, Richard H Gadsden said:

For every other IP address in our Class B, we publish a generic PTR
record, for example y.x.23.128.in-addr.arpa -> 128-23-x-y.musc.edu.

This of course won't scale to the IPv6 world unless you have a DNS
server that's able to generate synthetic responses on the fly...


Thanks,

:: Kevin Lisciotti, Senior Systems Specialist, RHCE, RHCSA
:: University Information Technology Services (UITS)
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