Re: [cobalt-users] How-to: Delegate Reverse DNS authority

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Edwards wrote:

> Here is the Question:   How do I delegate authority for certain IP addresses
> so that Raq4 servers leased from me and the DNS running on them is
> authoritative for Reverse??  These Raq4 servers have not been assigned a
> subnet (/30 /29 etc...) but instead have only been assigned 2 or 4 IP
> addresses and I need then to be authoritative for those IP addresses.

Teaching DNS is well beyond the scope of a mailing list reply; I highly
recommend the book "Linux DNS Server Administration" (Craig Hunt Linux
Library, Sybex); it's a bit easier to follow than the famous "cricket"
book from O'Reilly.

That said it's NOT recommended or supported, and you won't be able to do
it within the gui.

> Suggestions and/or instructions outside the Raq GUI are certainly welcomed
> also.

It appears that any changes you make outside the DNS gui are completely
deleted every time you make a change inside the gui.  So in order to do
it you'll likely have to leave the gui entirely; we once ran the gui
accidentally and lost a lot of changes; it was great we had a backup.

Jeff
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