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| 10 | 
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| 11 | <!--
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| 12 |   This file is generated, and should not be edited directly.  Edit gen-rDNS.pl to edit the header below, and 
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| 13 |   see https://secure.deepnet.cx/svn/dnsadmin/trunk/reverse-patterns.html for the tables.
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| 14 | -->
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| 15 | 
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| 16 | <p>The IP Database can pass reverse DNS information back and forth to a DNS management backend to simplify
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| 17 | maintenance of the reverse DNS records associated with the IPs being managed.</p>
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| 18 | 
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| 19 | <p>Several shortcuts can be used when specifying a pattern for an IPv4 netblock, which will be expanded to
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| 20 | actual DNS records by the DNS management system.</p>
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| 21 | 
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| 22 | <p>Entries should generally only be present in the "Per-IP reverse entries" section if they are different from
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| 23 | the block pattern.</p>
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| 24 | 
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| 25 | <p>Template patterns are not supported for IPv6 allocations due to the size of the address space and typical
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| 26 | size of allocations.</p>
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| 27 | 
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| 28 | <p>"(cached)" or "[local]" indicates the rDNS information shown came from IPDB records,
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| 29 | and not the DNS management utility.  It may be out of date, or DNS
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| 30 | management integration may be missing or incomplete for this block.</p>
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| 31 | 
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| 32 | <!-- rdns pattern table -->
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| 33 |       <table class="container" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="max-width:850px;">
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| 34 |         <tbody>
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| 35 |           <tr class="tableheader">
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| 36 |             <td colspan="3">Whole-IP patterns</td>
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| 37 |           </tr>
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| 38 |           <tr class="tableheader">
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| 39 |             <td></td>
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| 40 |             <td>Substitution pattern</td>
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| 41 |             <td>Example expansion using 192.168.23.45</td>
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| 42 |           </tr>
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| 43 |           <tr class="row0">
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| 44 |             <td>Dashed IP</td>
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| 45 |             <td>%i</td>
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| 46 |             <td>192-168-23-45</td>
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| 47 |           </tr>
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| 48 |           <tr class="row1">
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| 49 |             <td>Reverse dashed IP</td>
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| 50 |             <td>%r</td>
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| 51 |             <td>45-23-168-192</td>
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| 52 |           </tr>
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| 53 |           <tr class="row0">
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| 54 |             <td>Hex-coded IP</td>
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| 55 |             <td>%h</td>
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| 56 |             <td>c0a8172d</td>
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| 57 |           </tr>
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| 58 |           <tr class="row1">
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| 59 |             <td>Decimal IP</td>
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| 60 |             <td>%d</td>
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| 61 |             <td>323241453</td>
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| 62 |           </tr>
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| 63 |           <tr class="row0">
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| 64 |             <td colspan="3">
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| 65 |               %i and %r also allow explicitly defining the separator; eg %.i or %_r.  Dot/period (.), dash (-),
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| 66 |               and underscore (_) are the only characters supported since DNS names may not contain most
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| 67 |               other non-alphanumerics.
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| 68 |             </td>
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| 69 |           </tr>
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| 70 |           <tr class="row0">
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| 71 |             <td colspan="3">
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| 72 |               %blank% may be used to specifically prevent template expansion on a segment of a block if
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| 73 |               desired;  eg, if 192.168.23.0/24 has "unused-%i.example.com" set, adding an A+PTR template
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| 74 |               for 192.168.23.48/30 of "%blank%" will leave 192.168.23.48 through .51 without PTR records
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| 75 |               unless specific entries exist for those IPs.
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| 76 |             </td>
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| 77 |           </tr>
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| 78 |           <tr class="tableheader">
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| 79 |             <td colspan="3">Per-octet patterns (1, 2, 3, or 4 specify
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| 80 |               the octet; d, h or 0 specify decimal, hexidecimal, or
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| 81 |               0-padded decimal)</td>
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| 82 |           </tr>
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| 83 |           <tr class="row0">
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| 84 |             <td>First octet, decimal</td>
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| 85 |             <td>%1d</td>
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| 86 |             <td>192</td>
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| 87 |           </tr>
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| 88 |           <tr class="row1">
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| 89 |             <td>Third octet, 0-padded</td>
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| 90 |             <td>%30</td>
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| 91 |             <td>023</td>
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| 92 |           </tr>
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| 93 |           <tr class="row0">
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| 94 |             <td>Fourth octet, hexidecimal</td>
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| 95 |             <td>%4h</td>
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| 96 |             <td>2d</td>
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| 97 |           </tr>
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| 98 |           <tr class="row1">
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| 99 |             <td>All octets, different expansions</td>
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| 100 |             <td>%1h-%2d-%30-%4h</td>
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| 101 |             <td>c0-168-023-2d</td>
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| 102 |           </tr>
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| 103 | 
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| 104 |           <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr>
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| 105 | 
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| 106 |           <tr class="tableheader">
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| 107 |             <td colspan="3">Extensions</td>
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| 108 |           </tr>
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| 109 |           <tr class="tableheader">
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| 110 |             <td></td>
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| 111 |             <td>Substitution pattern</td>
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| 112 |             <td>Example expansion using 192.168.23.40/29</td>
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| 113 |           </tr>
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| 114 |           <tr class="row0">
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| 115 |             <td>Network/<br />gateway/<br />broadcast</td>
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| 116 |             <td>%ngb%</td>
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| 117 |             <td>
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| 118 |               customer-%i%ngb%.example.com<br />
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| 119 |               192.168.23.40 -> customer-net.example.com<br />
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| 120 |               192.168.23.41 -> customer-gw.example.com<br />
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| 121 |               192.168.23.42 -> customer-192-168-23-42.example.com<br />
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| 122 |               192.168.23.43 -> customer-192-168-23-43.example.com<br />
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| 123 |               192.168.23.44 -> customer-192-168-23-44.example.com<br />
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| 124 |               192.168.23.45 -> customer-192-168-23-45.example.com<br />
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| 125 |               192.168.23.46 -> customer-192-168-23-46.example.com<br />
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| 126 |               192.168.23.47 -> customer-bcast.example.com
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| 127 |             </td>
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| 128 |           </tr>
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| 129 |           <tr class="row1">
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| 130 |             <td colspan="3">
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| 131 |               Any IP pattern component is blanked on the network, gateway, and broadcast IPs when this is
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| 132 |               used.<br />
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| 133 |               Each of n, g, or b can be prefixed with a dash, eg %-ng-b% or %n-g-b%, which will
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| 134 |               blank that entire entry instead of substituting <tt>net</tt>, <tt>gw</tt>, or <tt>bcast</tt>.
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| 135 |             </td>
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| 136 |           </tr>
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| 137 |           <tr class="row0">
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| 138 |             <td>n'th usable IP</td>
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| 139 |             <td>%c</td>
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| 140 |             <td>
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| 141 |               customer-%3d-%c.example.com<br />
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| 142 |               192.168.23.40 -> customer-23.example.com<br />
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| 143 |               192.168.23.41 -> customer-23.example.com<br />
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| 144 |               192.168.23.42 -> customer-23-1.example.com<br />
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| 145 |               192.168.23.43 -> customer-23-2.example.com<br />
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| 146 |               192.168.23.44 -> customer-23-3.example.com<br />
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| 147 |               192.168.23.45 -> customer-23-4.example.com<br />
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| 148 |               192.168.23.46 -> customer-23-5.example.com<br />
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| 149 |               192.168.23.47 -> customer-23.example.com
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| 150 |             </td>
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| 151 |           </tr>
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| 152 |           <tr class="row1">
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| 153 |             <td colspan="3">
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| 154 |               c can be prefixed with a dash (%-c), which starts the numbering from the conventional gateway IP
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| 155 |               instead.  (.41 above would be 1, .42 2, etc, finishing with 6 at .46).
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| 156 |             </td>
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| 157 |           </tr>
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| 158 |         </tbody>
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| 159 |       </table>
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| 160 | <!-- done rdns pattern table -->
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