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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:44:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net>
To:        sckhoo@asiapac.net (Swee-Chuan Khoo)
Cc:        bill@bilver.oau.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DNS Reverse Lookup
Message-ID:  <199711191244.HAA14770@bigbrother.rust.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971119103021.4651B-100000@topgun> from Swee-Chuan Khoo at "Nov 19, 97 10:31:43 am"

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You can use CNAMES for reverse delegation.  Rather than spew the list with
a long & moderately complex discussion, interested parties should see:

ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsind-classless-inaddr-03.txt

Regards,
Michael

> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > > You might check with your backbone provider to see if they've delgated 
> > > reverse lookups for your IP block to your nameserver.  It's possible that 
> > > MCI still shows that *they* are doing the reverse lookups for your 
> > > addresses.  (This happened to me with SprintLink last year, same symptoms 
> > > that you describe.)
> 
> how about delegating a subnet of class C, let's say netmask of 26
> bits, how do we delegate it? we done that for whole class C.
> 
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