From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 12:44:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D5414D62 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:43:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11OlfD-0009JA-00; Wed, 08 Sep 1999 18:37:43 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11OlfB-0006nc-00; Wed, 08 Sep 1999 18:37:41 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:37:41 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reverse DNS question Message-ID: <19990908183741.A26088@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.6.32.19990908113252.008181e0@mail.9netave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990908113252.008181e0@mail.9netave.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG chris@tourneyland.com wrote: > 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. No you're not. You appear to know little about DNS, so it looks like Doug was right in suggesting you don't bother setting up a DNS server, unless you want to go and buy the DNS & Bind book from O'Reilly. > 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? Well, why not 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 partly correct, but take a look at RFC 2317 and you'll see there is a way around this. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message