I'm the owner of the IP space, how exactly can I get this rdns entry made? Does this involve hosting a DNS server or can I just make an entry into one of ARIN's databases?
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > Whose IP space are they on? Yours? Surely you control reverse DNS for > your own IP blocks, right? Part of ARIN allocating a block to you is > authoritative namesevers for the in-addr.arpa zone. You could host rDNS > anywhere you want, as long as ARIN points to those nameservers as > authoritative for your block. > > > > Are you saying this customer is using IP space from another provider, or > has their own? You would need to get the owner of that block to delegate > DNS to you for that IP address or subnet. > > > > I remember once I was doing hosting for a customer who had a T1 from AT&T, > and AT&T policy was not to provide rDNS for AT&T blocks assigned to a > customer if that customer’s domain was hosted elsewhere. Actually, what > AT&T did was to delegate rDNS to my nameservers without telling me first, > which resulted in constant lame delegation log entries. > > > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *TJ Trout > *Sent:* Thursday, January 12, 2017 11:17 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Reverse DNS entry > > > > Is it possibe to make a reverse DNS entry for a customer doing hosting on > their service if I'm not hosting my DNS in house ? ( Ducks) > > > > I'm assuming not? Anyway to resolve their request with hosted DNS or > through Arin's website ? > > > > >
