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Re: How do I take over reverse lookups?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry J. Blalock)
Tue Nov 10 20:40:55 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:33:33 -0800
From: "Perry J. Blalock" <perryb@badger1.net>
Reply-To: "Perry J. Blalock" <perryb@badger1.net>
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Internic has a form you need to fill out and request it.
> I recently set up a DNS server and took over my domain for the nternet.
> The ISP (Erols) who gave me the subclass C block is still mapping reverse
> names.
> 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..)
> did this make sense?
> -mak
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