Short answer is, you have ARIN point the in-addr.arpa for your blocks to your own authoritative NS1 and NS2, and host the reverse DNS zones on your own DNS infrastructure. If you do not already have it I strongly recommend buying the paper or PDF copy of the O'Reilly BIND9 book.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:40 PM, TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: > 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 <af...@kwisp.com> 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:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *TJ Trout >> *Sent:* Thursday, January 12, 2017 11:17 PM >> *To:* af@afmug.com >> *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 ? >> >> >> >> >> > >
