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Re: How do I take over reverse lookups?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Carpenter)
Tue Nov 10 18:15:41 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:04:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@celt.network1.net>
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> How does DNS control who is in charge of the reverse lookups?
> \
> obviously when I am at my local site, my reverse name lookup file works,
> but when I traceroute or login to another site, i get the stupid erols
> names!
>
> so my question is how do you assume "authority" for reverse lookups? (I
> am, btw, the authority for forward lookups..)
You need to contact your ISP so that the authority for your network can be
delegated to you.
-Randy
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