On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 10:21 -0600, Dave Smith wrote: > Corey Edwards wrote: > > You probably wouldn't set up a PTR record, not unless your ISP has > > delegated DNS for your IP address to you (very uncommon). You will have > > to ask whoever owns your address space to add the PTR record on your > > behalf. It's really quite easy and any decent ISP will do it for you. > > > > It seems likely that they already have. My box is a linode, but I guess > the linode admins don't know what I've named it, so maybe I should > request it of them. How can I find out if it's already done? Should > nslookup of the IP address give me my hostname?
Received: from thesmithfam.org (li6-49.members.linode.com [66.160.141.49]) So your server is calling itself "thesmithfam.org", but DNS names it "li6-49.members.linode.com", which is the default PTR entry. IIRC there's a place in the Linode site to change the reverse DNS for your IP address. http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=405 Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
