Somewhat OT: Getting control of reverse for my Qwest.net /29
Marco Benton - BOFH
marco at xssnet.com
Tue Nov 2 00:14:22 UTC 2004
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>
> I just went through this with my /26 at DSL.NET.
>
> You have to learn your ISP's procedure for non-octet aligned reverse
> delegations.
>
> some use n-m.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa (n being the first and m being the last
> address)
>
> eg: 192-255.78.84.65.in-addr.arpa
>
> some use n-c.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa (n being the first and c being the block size)
>
> eg: 192-26.78.84.65.in-addr.arpa
>
> With this delegation, your work is easy, just supply the PTR records for
> ALL the addresses (even those that are your network and broadcast
> addresses). For those addresses without any host, use y.x.x.x.client.domain.com
>
> The ISP has the real work, but thanks to $GENERATE, it is not all that hard
> (the RFC was written before the $GENERATE).
>
> Finally, get yourself someone to secondary your new zone. Your ISP may
> wash their hands, saying, 'its all yours'. get someone on a different ISP,
> preferably geographically different area to be your seconday. And consider
> returing the favor.
>
http://www.twisted4life.com does free secondary hosting.
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Marco Benton - BOFH, BSMFH
Network Consultant
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