[lug] Reverse domain registry question

[Chip Atkinson]

Ok, thanks.  You and another guy have given me enough so that I can start
reading up in the right places.  I'm not on dialup, but on DSL and have a
/29 IP range (8 addresses).  I looked at ARIN's web site a bit and it
looked like that was a "big boys playground". I never expect too much from
USW so I probably won't be too disappointed.  I'll have to figure out the
zone information for me should look like so that I can mail it to them as
your friend did.

Thanks again and I'll report when/if it gets done.

Chip

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Nate Duehr wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 04:00:31PM -0700, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Basically there are about three ways to do this, and the ISP needs to do
> all of them.  If you're ready to start doing the reverses on your DNS
> server, they need to delegate those IP's down to you.
> 
> Easiest way to do that for them is to put NS records pointing to your
> nameserver's IP address in place of PTR records in the in-addr.arpa zone
> for your IP addresses.  This will cause these lookups to be referred to
> your nameserver.  
> 
> Other methods include actually registering that IP range as being *yours*
> and not theirs with ARIN and the powers that be, at which point reverse
> lookups would come directly to your nameserver and not go to theirs first.
> For a really big group of IP's, this is a must as it speeds things up and
> is a better use of DNS server resources, but for a small group of IP's, 
> it's easier just to delegate via recursion.
> 
> One other thing, someone said you were on dialup?  That didn't make any
> sense to me as you are serving from that machine.  I'll assume you have
> static IP's, or otherwise there's a whole other mess that needs to be
> dealt with.  :)
> 
> If you have a /28 or /29 network, getting USWest to type in the delegations 
> isn't too bad.  Otherwise, if you have a lot of IP's, it's time for them to
> break out the macro preprocessor to attack the zone files!  :) 
> 
> BTW, expect them to get this wrong at least once.  Their DNS guys were
> very green a couple months ago, and a friend of mine had to e-mail them
> a zone file to use to get his DNS set up correctly.  That's just sad.
> 
> 
> > I'm setting up a few domains and am trying to get reverse lookups working.
> > I have the static IPs and both forward and reverse lookups work on the 
> > local box with the name server, but only forward lookups work in the
> > outside world.  How do I get the inaddr.arpa domain information to the
> > outside world?  Is this something that my ISP needs to do?  If so, how is
> > it done?  I have US Wurst as an ISP so I need to understand it so I can
> > explain it to them :-)
> 
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