Listing 1. BIND Configuration for example.com ;-- BIND named.conf excerpt zone "example.com" in { type master; file "db.example.com"; }; zone "10.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "db.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa"; }; ;-- BIND zone file: db.example.com $TTL 86400 example.com. IN SOA linux2.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. ( 2008090101 ; serial number 3h ; refresh 15m ; update retry 3w ; expire 3h ; negative cache ttl ) IN NS linux2.example.com. IN MX 0 mail.example.com. mail IN A 192.168.10.10 linux1 IN A 192.168.10.10 linux2 IN A 192.168.10.20 linux3 IN A 192.168.10.30 flying IN A 192.168.10.10 spaghetti IN A 192.168.10.20 monster IN A 192.168.10.30 noodly-appendage IN CNAME linux1.example.com. ;-- BIND zone file: db.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa $TTL 86400 10.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA linux2.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. ( 2008090101 ; serial number 3h ; refresh 15m ; update retry 3w ; expire 3h ; negative cache ttl ) IN NS linux2.example.com. 10 IN PTR linux1.example.com. 20 IN PTR linux2.example.com. 30 IN PTR linux3.example.com.