/24 in-addr.arpa Delegation Problem

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Sep 26 21:14:39 UTC 2000


Is your netblock a /17 or smaller? If so, then ARIN can't delegate
64.216.in-addr.arpa to you and presumably will have to delegate at the /24
level.

- Kevin

Ethan Banks wrote:

> I've delegated 49.64.216.in-addr.arpa. to oldman.state.nh.us and
> whitemtns.state.nh.us by putting NS records in the zone file living on
> ns1.vitts.com and ns2.vitts.com.  If I nslookup against either oldman or
> whitemtns, I get answers for PTR queries in this domain.  However, if I
> attempt a reverse lookup from anywhere else, the query fails.
>
> What's broken?  My delegation, the authoritative name servers, or something
> in the middle?  Here's my zone file for 49.64.216.in-addr.arpa:
>
> $TTL 1H
> @       IN      SOA     ns1.vitts.net.   hostmaster.vitts.net. (
>                                 2000092501              ; Serial
>                                 3H                      ; Refresh after 3
> hours
>                                 1H                      ; Retry after 1 hour
>                                 1W                      ; expire weekly
>                                 1H      )               ; Minimum TTL of 1
> hour
> ;
> ; Name servers
> ;
>         IN      NS      oldman.state.nh.us.
>         IN      NS      whitemtns.state.nh.us.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ethan Banks
> Vitts Networks






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