Class-C reverse delegation

[Kevin Darcy]

Have them delegate the zone to you from the *parent* zone, i.e. the B-class.
I'm amazed that they couldn't figure this out.


- Kevin

Riaquint wrote:

> I have a full Class-C given to me, 256 (minus 3) IP's.  I need reverse
> authority over them and the only way that my ISP knows how to do it is by
> setting up periodic zone transfers.  As most of you know, this is inefficant
> and only occurs twice a day, which leads to problems when updating.  They
> tried to add this line to the zone file: "*    ns    my.ip" but it didnt
> work.  I know this is probably documented somewhere but my ISP claims that
> they just dont know any other way than periodic zone transfer. I asked them
> if they could change the nameservers associated with my Class-C in
> ARIN.net's database, but they wouldnt.  So what would the ISP need to do to
> give me authority?  Is a matter of the named.conf file or is it defined in
> the zone file? Any help is appreciated, thanks.