[Novalug] What's the RFC, Kenneth?

James Ewing Cottrell, III jecottrell3@comcast.net
Wed Jun 3 15:05:17 EDT 2015


I know HOW to do it....I want to know what the RFC that describes it.

JIM

P.S. Any unless you run a Root or TLD name server, or are named Dan Bernstein, why *wouldn't* you be running BIND?
P.P.S. Don't even mention Windows or Active Directory

----- Original Message -----
From: "Xavier Belanger" <firemountain@belanger.fr>
To: "James Ewing Cottrell, III" <jecottrell3@comcast.net>
Cc: "James Ewing Cottrell, III via Novalug" <novalug@firemountain.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 10:12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Novalug] What's the RFC, Kenneth?

Hi

> Anyway, the RFC describes the idea of using $GENERATE in
> the Reverse Domain to create both A and PTR records in
> the Forward domain. (...)
> Anyone remember this RFC? What's the Number?

It seems to be BIND-specific:

> Luckily, BIND 8.2 and later, as well as BIND 9.1.0 and later,
> nameservers support a control statement called $GENERATE, which
> lets you create a group of resource records that differ only by
> a numerical iterator.

>From "DNS and BIND" - O'Reilly Editions - 5 ed. - P. 216

Sincerely.
-- 
Xavier Belanger



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