The reverse zone page contains the following functions:

Search

See the separate documentation on searching.

Add: Pointer

Displays an empty node page for adding information about a new pointer; that is, a reverse map name and the domain name the reverse map points to.

Add: Multiple PTRs

Like "Add: Pointer", but lets you conveniently add a whole series of pointer. The pointer name entered will be used as such for the first pointer, and the subsequent pointer names will get have the first label incremented. This means that you can, for example, add nomachine.foo.test for every PTR record not pointing to any existing machine in your zone.

Add: Multiple Delegations

Like "Add: Multiple PTRs", but lets you conveniently add a series of subdomains delegation. The number entered as name will be used as such for the first delegation, and the subsequent delegation names will get have the first label incremented. This means that you can, for example, delegate reverse mapping for zones in range 17.0.10.in-addr.arpa - 28.0.10.in-addr.arpa to another name servers or to the same name server if you wish to maintain these zones separately from 0.10.in-addr.arpa.

Add: Alias

Displays a form for creating a new alias (in other words, a new domain name with a CNAME record).

Add: Delegation

Displays a form for delegating a subdomain of the current zone to make it separately maintained with a set of name servers of its own.

Import names: Upload

Uploads a file containing DNS data in a text-based format from the machine running the web browser. See the separate documentation on the upload function.

Export zone: Master file

Lists the current zone in the standard RFC1035 master file format. By using the "save" function of your web browser, you can save the zone data for further processing by other DNS software that uses the master file format.

Remove: Entire zone

After asking for confirmation, destroys the entire zone and all its contents.

Remove: Hosts matching pattern

See the separate documentation on Hosts matching pattern.

The reverse zone data

The table may contain some or all of the following columns, depending on the display preferences or user account settings. Some of the columns may also be missing when using a web browser lacking HTML table support.

Reverse map name

The DNS name. The name serves as a hypertext link leading to the node page which contains complete information about the name.

Icon

An icon illustrating the type of DNS data stored under the name.

Name

The data shown in this column varies depending on the types of records stored under the name. If the name is a pointer, the name (or names) pointer points to is shown here. If the name is an alias, the canonical name is shown, etc.

IP Address

The reverse map domain name contains the IP address of the domain name it points to in reverse order. The IP address field contains the IP address the reverse map is corresponding to.

Comments

The contents of the name's TXT records, if any. Due to limited screen space, only the first few characters of each TXT record are displayed.

Aliases

Known aliases (CNAME and DNAME records) of this name. Only aliases in the same zone are displayed.

Private

The private comment data (HTXT and HTML records) of the name, if any. Due to limited screen space, only the first few characters of each HTXT record are displayed. HTML records are displayed in full.