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Re: Reverse DNS Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Tue Apr 20 16:26:48 2010

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:26:17 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: James Martin <jamesmartin@ieee.org>
In-Reply-To: <r2yd64c57de1004201308sea121993p280850b9285ab096@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, James Martin wrote:

> What is the purpose for this besides resolving name-based reverse lookups?
> Are there any definitive guides out there on how this works (besides the
> ARIN site)?

It's for resolving address-based lookups.  When ARIN allocates address 
space to you, you now become responsible for the reverse-lookups for that 
allocated address range.

Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp:  tony@lava.net


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