afaik, it can only done through ISP (i.e. if the ISP doesn't reverse DNS your domain, it won't work)
Jamez. http://root-box.info On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:16:01 +0100, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi mates, i'm trying to setup a small irc shell for me and my friends, > and i'm trying to experiment with vanity hosts. I will be using > freedns.afraid.org for creating subdomains to use as vhosts. It let's > set A records etc. Then i thought of setting only the PTR records on my > dns server to i will reverse dns and instead of my ip, the desired > hostname will showup. > > Currently my static ip is 217.145.5.206 > afraid.org has the following nameservers: ns1.afraid.org and ns2.afraid.org > > what if i do the following...after choosing a public domain to create a > subdomain..let's say i get freebsduser.com and from it i create > asym.freebsduser.com > > in named.conf i would setup this: > > zone "freebsduser.com"{ > type slave; > file "freebsduser.com"; > }; > > then the zone file would be something like this: > > $TTL 3600 > > 206.5.145.217.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns1.afraid.org. admin.afraid.org. ( > 5 ; Serial > 10800 ; Refresh > 3600 ; Retry > 604800 ; Expire > 3600 ) ; Minimum > > @ IN NS ns1.afraid.org. > @ IN NS ns2.afraid.org. > > 2 IN PTR ns1.afraid.org. > 3 IN PTR ns2.afraid.org. > 10 IN PTR asym.freebsduser.com. > 30 IN PTR freebsduser.com. > > Would this be correct? I actually once called euroweb to setup a reverse dns > on a particular host for me..and it worked..however it wouldn't be a good > idea to call them everytime i want to change hostname. > > Regards > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > -- j@
