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From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross S. W. Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS problems with 2 class C's on 1 T1
Date: 10 Nov 1995 08:33:54 GMT
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Elya Kurktchi (elya@nic.cerf.net) wrote:
: I'm having DNS and routing problems here.  Can somebody post a reply
: or email me with what would be a proper solution to this problem:

: We have 1 T1 line going to a.com.  It is a WinNT machine with a frame
: relay card and an ethernet card.  The ethernet card goes to a 10 port
: HUB.  The NT does routing and is a gateway.  There is no physical router
: (like cisco).  This domain is called a.com.   My machine is a freebsd
: unix machine called b.com with it's own class C ip address.  How can
: I setup my freebsd machine (and NT machine if applicable) to handle 2
: class C's on 1 T1 line?

: THanks.

: Elya.

I use 3 class C's under one logical domain. In the DNS there has to
be a RARPA for each class C (RARPA - reverse name server ip -> name).
This is independant of the domain name configuration and each must
also be registered with the internic. Once you have this done use the
BSD box as the DNS since NT doesn't really handle this stuff too
well (or not at all out-of-the-box). The RARPA files look like this:

rarpa for 192.42.172

1	PTR	host1.a.com.
2	PTR	host2.a.com.

rarpa for 192.42.173

1	PTR	host3.a.com.
2	PTR	host4.a.com.

dns for a.com

host1	IN	A	192.42.172.1
host2	IN	A	192.42.172.2
host3	IN	A	192.42.173.1
host4	IN	A	192.42.173.2


This is a very simplistic example, but after looking at the
man pages a bit and maybe a quick look at a DNS book you'll
get the idea. It's not that hard and once the DNS files are
set up there is little modification except to add a few
things or take a few things out needed, remember to change
your version # in your SOA records if you have secondary
DNS servers, but you'll find that out too :-)

Cheers,

Ross Walker

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