Delegating in-addr.arpa lookup

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Mon Dec 18 17:40:33 UTC 2000


On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:15:07PM -0800, Sumanth Vepa wrote:
> 
> I'm new to bind and DNS in general.
> 
> I have small subnet asigned to me by my isp (nnn.nnn.nnn/29)
> I'm trying to delegate reverse address lookups for my domain to the
> nameserver of my isp,
> since I donot own the entire network.
> 
> Is there a way to do this using bind 8.

The ISP owns the reverse lookups already.  You do not have to delegate
to him.

If you want to ask him to delegate to you [the opposite of what you
wrote], so that you then supply the DNS information, read RFC 2317.

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