[TriLUG] forward zones

[Chris Bullock]

I am not following exactly what you are doing, but I usually use webmin 
to edit my DNS entries.  If you can use webmin simply edit the home.priv 
zone and this will update you reverse lookups also, but if you are 
editing from command line I really can't answer your question.

Scott Lundgren wrote:

>I added a third box to my home network and decided to setup a name server
>for them all. Can someone explain to me if the following is a difference in
>how I was expecting a config tool to work or a gap in my understanding of
>DNS
>
>Using RH9, redhat-config-bind I first created a reverse zone
>"1.168.192.in-addr.arpa"
>Then I added records for:
>	192.168.1.1		athos
>	192.168.1.2		porthos
>	192.168.1.3		dartagnan
>
>My thinking was that I would then do the same but backwards to create the
>forward zone. However I found that if I tried to add records to the only
>forward zone, localhost (athos's localhost is acting as the nameserver), the
>only records I could were to <blank>.localhost (which I thought would have
>been subdomains to localhost). Instead I added 3 new Forward Master Zone
>records, one for each box. Everything works, each box can ping & nmap each
>other box by IP & hostname since all 3 use athos for a gateway & nameserver.
>So are forward zones created per machine than per network segement like
>reverse zones ? Or is something seemingly working but probably isn't?
>
>- SL
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