[lug] DNS and a thanks for the DSL info.

John Starkey jstarkey at ajstarkey.com
Sun Aug 27 13:05:36 MDT 2000


> Our up-stream has set it up so that requests for reverse on our block get
> mapped to the "fake" domain "tummy.150.17.216.in-addr.arpa", which they
> actually pull from our DNS server.
> 
> So, you can end up handling all your DNS needs, effectively.  However,
> you have to have an ISP that will cooperate with this.  These days that
> should be most of them.

How does this work?? The "fake" domain is the server for you DNS? So
tummy actually refers to a block and yu are the SOA for that block
(according to their records)?

John





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