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Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bruce@yoafrica.com)
Sat Mar 21 06:39:39 2009

Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:38:55 +0300
From: <bruce@yoafrica.com>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090321103230.24415.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Slighty related...

Can people please post their recommended reverse dns naming conventions for a small ISP with growth and scalability in mind. 
I already have one drawn up, but I would like to contrast and compare :D

Thanks 

On 21 Mar 2009 10:32:30 -0000, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>> 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



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