Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:41:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: Lee Mark Mercado <mercadolee@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DNS Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111141439190.26038-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011114182135.H684@k7.mavetju.org>
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 11:14:13PM -0800, Lee Mark Mercado wrote: > > i setup my own DNS and everything works fine, *i think*. but my problem is > > when i reverse dns lookup my IP its showing my ISP's assigned name (Name: > > adsl-66-126-195-XXX.dsl.sndg01.pacbell.net). > > > > is it posible for me to make the reverse dns to show 'mydomain.com' and not > > the one my ISP has given to me ? > > Sure, just make your DNS server authoritive for 195.125.66.in-addr.arpa. > Only problems: > > 1. You won't be able, unless you can find out how to stay up to > date with the real data for 195.125.66.in-addr.arpa, to reverse > resolve the other IP addresses in 66.125.195.x. If you've a staticly-allocated IP address, it _is_ possible to be authoritative for 123.195.126.66.in-addr.arpa. - you just need to persuade your ISP that you're clueful enough for them to delegate it to you. Odds are, they won't be prepared to do so. You _don't_ need to be authoritative for the whole /24. > 2. You and only you, unless you can convince pacbell.net to delegate > the reverse delegation to you, will be able to reverse resolve it > into yourdomain.com. > > So in other words, it is possible but it's very hard and not worth > the troubles to persuade it. > > Edwin > > -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Generalisation is never appropriate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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