Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28.06.12 08:21, Mark Andrews wrote: I would set up 10.in-addr.arpa which is slaved on all internal nameservers and delegate the /24's as required. 10.in-addr.arpa won't change much and will be cheaper in the long run than using a stub zone. Just to add that you may need delegation NS record

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 26.06.12 11:07, Brad Bendily wrote: Personally, I'd rather edit 1 file, than hundreds of different files. and when you make a mistake in one file, you will f*ck up everything instead of one /24 subnet I can add the DNS entry and IP address and reload the service. No trying to figure out

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Andrews
I would set up 10.in-addr.arpa which is slaved on all internal nameservers and delegate the /24's as required. 10.in-addr.arpa won't change much and will be cheaper in the long run than using a stub zone. In message <4feb2a8a.4050...@imperial.ac.uk>, Phil Mayers writes: > On 27/06/12 15:30, nex6

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-27 Thread Phil Mayers
On 27/06/12 15:30, nex6 wrote: so, you *should* have a larger 10.x.x.x zone? *and* smaller 10.x.x.0/24 zones? so i am assuming the workflow would be in this case, records go in the smaller zones, and the larger zone is the catchall to prevent leakage? It is good practice, and polite, to preven

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-27 Thread nex6
* Phil Mayers [2012-06-27 14:29:38 +0100]: > On 26/06/12 17:25, nex6 wrote: > >* Phil Mayers [2012-06-26 16:54:55 +0100]: > > > > > >I am not going to be editing files by hand, we actually have a tool. I am > >more > >concerned about best practices, and how to fix the mess. > > > >eg, say w

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-27 Thread Phil Mayers
On 26/06/12 17:25, nex6 wrote: * Phil Mayers [2012-06-26 16:54:55 +0100]: I am not going to be editing files by hand, we actually have a tool. I am more concerned about best practices, and how to fix the mess. eg, say we have about 500 vlans (/24s) and say only 350 have reverse zones. from wh

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-26 Thread nex6
* Phil Mayers [2012-06-26 16:54:55 +0100]: I am not going to be editing files by hand, we actually have a tool. I am more concerned about best practices, and how to fix the mess. eg, say we have about 500 vlans (/24s) and say only 350 have reverse zones. from what I understand its best to just

RE: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-26 Thread Brad Bendily
ssage- From: nex6 [mailto:b...@borg1911.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:43 AM To: Brad Bendily Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Reverse zones best practices * Brad Bendily [2012-06-25 16:35:28 -0500]: wouldn't it be more confusing, in a big IP space with servers, deskto

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-26 Thread Phil Mayers
On 26/06/12 16:42, nex6 wrote: * Brad Bendily [2012-06-25 16:35:28 -0500]: wouldn't it be more confusing, in a big IP space with servers, desktops etc all mashed together into one zone? If you have enough hosts for this to be confusing, you have enough hosts to store the data in some master

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-26 Thread nex6
* Brad Bendily [2012-06-25 16:35:28 -0500]: wouldn't it be more confusing, in a big IP space with servers, desktops etc all mashed together into one zone? > I don't know about best practice in this case, but I decided to put our > reverse entries into one "super netting" file as you call i

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-26 Thread nex6
* David Dowdle [2012-06-25 14:20:43 -0700]: so, create zones based on how networking creates vlans eg: /24s we dont have any /8 or /16 vlan networks yet > I strongly recommend splitting on /8 /16 and /24 boundries. With > the number of zones you are talking about, doing anything else wi

RE: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-25 Thread Brad Bendily
I don't know about best practice in this case, but I decided to put our reverse entries into one "super netting" file as you call it. We had the same problem that a lot of reverse entries were missing, so I wrote a script to parse the forward file and create the reverse. Then I incorporated that

Re: Reverse zones best practices

2012-06-25 Thread David Dowdle
I strongly recommend splitting on /8 /16 and /24 boundries. With the number of zones you are talking about, doing anything else will get very confusing very quickly. If a netblock is larger than a /24, put at the top and bottom of each /24 a comment lile explaining what size it is For examp