Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:11:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reverse DNS question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909081106200.36303-100000@dt014nb6.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990908113252.008181e0@mail.9netave.net>
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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 chris@tourneyland.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been reading a little about DNS, inlcuding about the responsibility a
> DNS server it has for reverse DNS. For example, if I own the Class C
> 111.72.34.* (which I don't), I'm responsible for the 111.72.34.IN-ADDR.ARPA
> zone.
That is not correct. You would be responsible for
34.72.111.in-addr.arpa.
> Here's my problem: I have 5 static IP addresses, that my ISP leases me
> along with my ADSL line. So, who's in charge of reverse DNS for those 5
> addreses?
That depends an a lot of things. You should ask your ISP.
> Unless I'm mistaken, the granularity of reverse DNS isn't such
> that I can handle just my 5, and the ISP does the rest.
You are mistaken.
> Instead, I assume
> that my ISP is responsible for reverse DNS on those 5, so it's up to me to
> tell them what maps to what. This would also imply that I don't do any
> reverse DNS at all (I'm not sure what this would mean for local reverse DNS
> stuff, except that maybe it just gets forwarded like any other unknown DNS
> request).
>
> Is this correct?
I can't make any sense at all out of this paragraph. However, you
should do two things. Buy and read the BIND book that about 14 people have
told you to buy and read so far. AFTER you are done with that, feel free
to ask some more questions, but if they are bind-only questions do it on
the bind-users list, not the freebsd lists. Second, you should contact
your ISP and get them to help you with this specific problem, since that's
what you're paying them to do, and without knowing the IP's involved there
is no way any of us can answer your questions with anything but guesses,
which are likely to be wrong.
Doug
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