IPv6 DNS Config Strategies

[Tim Densmore]

On 9/20/2012 1:06 AM, Phil Mayers wrote:
> Not entirely sure what the question is here, but you state that you 
> split your forward zones into multiple files "per /24". Are these 
> files in >1 zone, or $INCLUDEed into bigger zones?
>
I imagine part of the problem is that I'm (obviously) not particularly 
good with DNS.  In the case I'm considering, I'm working with one zone 
with multiple includes, and multiple in-addr.arpa files.  I did things 
this way more for organizational reasons than anything else.  That and 
one huge file is cumbersome when all interaction with it is human.

> I'm guessing that you're editing zone files by hand. Basically, don't 
> do that. Use a database to generate them, and lots of these problems 
> are handled by automation.
>
Yeah.  Everything is done by hand.  This "system" sucks, but it's light 
years ahead of what was being done previously.

> Note that "database" may be a set of source text files - it need not 
> be some large SQL/IPAM system.
>
> FWIW our /48 reverse is a single zone, updated incrementally by 
> dynamic DNS from our (SQL) IP database. 

 From reading these responses, it's become obvious that I'm asking the 
wrong question.  Apparently I should be looking at some way to automate 
things rather than looking for better ways to manually chip-chop a /32 
up into manageable pieces.  I'll have to get on that.

Thanks!

TD