Thanks Rod.

2 questions:

1.  How do I get them to "delegate in-addr.arpa lookups to my
nameserver"?
2.  I think it is obvious that my ISP set up their DNS server, and uses
the USWest one as a backup, but didn't establish this with USWest.  If I
want to bring DNS in-house (which I will, eventually), how do I
determine who the secondary DNS server should/could be, and what do I
need to make sure that they do (like delegate in-addr.arpa lookups)?

Any great books or websites to check out?

Thanks a ton.

Jason Alba
IT Manager
tel: 208.232.8599 x323
fax: 208.232.6068
http://www.varsitycontractors.com


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rod Dorman
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] PTR Record...


Jason Alba wrote:
> I swear I saw my ISP guy put a reverse lookup entry in his DNS server.

> However, when I went to DNS stuff and put in 
> hostmail.varsitycontractors.com, selected ALL, it didn't show a PTR 
> entry.
> 
> Why would this happen?  (Does ALL mean... All?)

That IP block belongs to:
U S WEST Communications Svcs, Inc. (NETBLK-USW-INTERACT99)
   600 Stinson Blvd NE    Minneapolis, MN 55413    US

   Netname: USW-INTERACT99
   Netblock: 63.224.0.0 - 63.231.255.255
   Maintainer: USW

   Coordinator:
      U S WEST ISOps  (ZU24-ARIN)  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
      612-664-4689


If they're not delegating in-addr.arpa lookups to your nameserver it
doesn't matter what PTR records you've entered.

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           when asking for seconds."
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