[112845] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: REVERSE DNS Practices.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Sat Mar 21 13:44:38 2009
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: <bruce@yoafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: <7c9a4be6ad650d86a4884a739cb2ada9@imap.yoafrica.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:44:15 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
The recommendations in this draft proposal have worked for me:
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic-naming-schemes-00.=
txt
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: bruce@yoafrica.com [mailto:bruce@yoafrica.com]=20
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:39 AM
To: John Levine
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.
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
