Thanks to David Hoyt, Ollivier ROBERT, and Phil Rand for responding to my problem.
My original question/problem was:
I am running Digital Unix v3.2C on an AlphaServer 1000. I was looking
at the daemon.log file after I rebooted today and found that I am having
a problem when name service is started (see partial listing below). It
appears that I have not setup my CIDR block of IP addresses correctly.
I have a block of four addresses (198.214.72.0 - 198.214.75.0). How do
I set them up in my hosts and named.boot files?
Partial listing of daemon.log follows
Nov 3 10:17:27 mccadm named[258]: starting. named 4.9.3-B9P1+ Mon Jul 24 22:04:18 EDT 1995
Nov 3 10:17:27 mccadm named[258]: hosts.rev:28: data "1.74.214.198.in-addr.arpa" outside zone "72.214.198.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
The solution was:
To define a host reverse file for each zone (I had defined all four of my
class 'C' zones in one reverse file).
Below are the text of the responses I received.
>From: David Hoyt <dhoyt_at_oem.net>
>
>you forgot the trailing dot in the reverse file..
>
>!============================
>!David Hoyt OEM.NET
>!Boston, MA USA, Earth
>From: ollivier.robert_at_eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
>
>It is not really CIDR related. CIDR is a solution for routing problem, not
>DNS ones.
>
>> Nov 3 10:17:27 mccadm named[258]: hosts.rev:28: data "1.74.214.198.in-addr.arpa" outside zone "72.214.198.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
>
>Inside the zone file for "72.214.198.in-addr.arpa", you can't have entry
>for another reverse zone unless you use full names (ending with ".") and it
>is not recommanded.
>
>Just setup 4 reverse zone files for each network and it should work.
>--
>Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TS -=- Ollivier.Robert_at_eurocontrol.fr
>From: Phil Rand <prand_at_paul.spu.edu>
>
>Hi Don,
>
>We have one stand-alone class C, 192.190.33.0, plus a CIDR block of 32.
>We just run them all as independent class c's. Last I heard, the DNS
>software didn't know anything about CIDR, though I haven't looked into the
>issue for a couple of years.
>
>Here's our named.boot file:
>
>; /etc/namedb/named.boot
>
>(removed some comments)
>
>directory /etc/namedb
>;
>; TYPE DOMAIN FILE (or SOURCE HOST)
>primary spu.edu spu.txt
>primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa named.local
>primary 33.190.192.in-addr.arpa 33.txt
>primary 160.237.199.in-addr.arpa 160.txt
>primary 161.237.199.in-addr.arpa 161.txt
>primary 162.237.199.in-addr.arpa 162.txt
>
>(removed networks 163 - 190)
>
>primary 191.237.199.in-addr.arpa 191.txt
>;
>; load the cache data last
>cache . named.ca
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
>Here's just the first part of spu.txt:
>
>$ORIGIN edu.
>spu IN SOA adam.spu.edu. postmaster.spu.edu. ( 199610301 10800 1800 3600000 86400 )
>
> IN NS adam.spu.edu.
> IN NS dns1.nwnet.net.
> IN NS dns2.nwnet.net.
> IN HINFO " " "; Seattle Pacific University"
> IN MX 10 paul.spu.edu.
>$ORIGIN spu.edu.
>loghost IN CNAME localhost.spu.edu.
>localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
>ftp IN CNAME adam.spu.edu.
>gopher IN CNAME adam.spu.edu.
>news IN CNAME adam.spu.edu.
>banweb IN CNAME noah.spu.edu.
>www IN CNAME adam.spu.edu.
>mail IN CNAME paul.spu.edu.
>ns IN CNAME adam.spu.edu.
>otserver IN CNAME esther.spu.edu.
>spu-net IN PTR 0.33.190.192.in-addr.arpa.
>
>2WDHUB01 IN A 199.237.187.20
> IN MX 10 paul.spu.edu.
>
>Adam IN A 192.190.33.9
> IN MX 10 adam.spu.edu.
>
>Adam1 IN A 192.190.33.183
> IN MX 10 Adam1.spu.edu.
>
>AIMCdesk IN A 192.190.33.217
> IN MX 10 paul.spu.edu.
>
>AIMCteach IN A 192.190.33.218
> IN MX 10 paul.spu.edu.
>
>ALEXHUB01 IN A 199.237.176.41
> IN MX 10 paul.spu.edu.
>
>------------------------------------------
>
>And here's 160.txt, the first of the CIDR block reverse-lookup zones:
>
>$ORIGIN 237.199.in-addr.arpa.
>160 IN SOA adam.spu.edu. postmaster.spu.edu. ( 199509191 10800 1800 3600000 86400 )
> IN NS adam.spu.edu.
> IN NS dns1.nwnet.net.
> IN NS dns2.nwnet.net.
> IN HINFO " " "; Seattle Pacific University"
>
>$ORIGIN 160.237.199.in-addr.arpa.
>2 IN PTR ASH511A.spu.edu.
>3 IN PTR ASH511B.spu.edu.
>4 IN PTR ASH512A.spu.edu.
>5 IN PTR ASH512B.spu.edu.
>6 IN PTR ASH513A.spu.edu.
>7 IN PTR ASH513B.spu.edu.
>8 IN PTR ASH514A.spu.edu.
>9 IN PTR ASH514B.spu.edu.
>
>(removed a bunch)
>
>------------------------------
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>--
>-- Phil Rand <prand_at_spu.edu>, aka <postmaster_at_spu.edu>
>-- http://www.spu.edu/users/prand (206) 281-2428
>-- Computer and Information Systems
>-- Seattle Pacific University
>-- 3307 3rd Ave. W., Seattle, WA 98119
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Received on Tue Nov 05 1996 - 19:54:10 NZDT