Should reverse zones be mirrored?

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 21:58:03 UTC 2010


Renich Bon Ciric <renich at woralelandia.com> writes:
> Should reverse zones be mirrored in slave bind servers?

Yes.  Of course.  They are normal DNS zones and should really have a few
secondary servers as fallback.  I'm surprised the registrar of note
(arin?) even allows you to register the reverse zone without at least
two nameservers.

> Can a reverse zone be hosted on a different location/IP?

yes.

> My master bind server is outside the network; on the other side of the
> world. Should I host the reverse zone there?

yes.

-wolfgang
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