[112835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat Mar 21 06:32:45 2009
Date: 21 Mar 2009 10:32:30 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <e02ea4ef0903202312t2ea12a08rb9c117b059b0703d@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> I want to ask some folks out there that maintain reverse DNS queries
>of their respective IP blocks. I want to know if there is a need for
>me to contact my upstream provider. I am in charge of 2 /24's under
>LACNIC. I've already registered my DNS servers on LACNIC. but for some
>weird reason it's not owning reverse resolves. any tips would be
>gladly appreciated.
The RIRs don't maintain rDNS for you. You'll have to trace the
delegations downward from in-addr.arpa, find out who's handling your
/24's, and contact them to get them to delegate your chunks to you.
R's,
John
