From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 19 05:06:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA14043 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 05:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from bigbrother.rust.net (bigbrother.rust.net [209.69.72.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA14036 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 05:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by bigbrother.rust.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA14770; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:44:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael W. Lucas" Message-Id: <199711191244.HAA14770@bigbrother.rust.net> Subject: Re: DNS Reverse Lookup In-Reply-To: from Swee-Chuan Khoo at "Nov 19, 97 10:31:43 am" To: sckhoo@asiapac.net (Swee-Chuan Khoo) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:44:52 -0500 (EST) Cc: bill@bilver.oau.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Swee-Chuan Khoo sckhoo@asiapac.net > System Administrator - Internet Evangelist > http://www.asiapac.net/~sckhoo/ http://www.apmail.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > FreeBSD : Decouvrez la puissance de votre PC! >