Reverse lookup records held by ISP, I need to control them...

[Derek J. Balling]

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At 7:01 PM +0000 1/28/01, lucidity185 at my-deja.com wrote:
>I haven't talked to my ISP yet because my hours that I am awake are
>usually outside their operations hours...  But I'm wondering something
>regarding problems with my reverse lookup records.  I have a set of X
>IP's given to me from my ISP (they provide me simply with a connection
>to the net, with which I can do anything - i.e. webhosting, email
>hosting, etc.).  So, I went and set up two DNS servers for future
>webhosting.  When I setup the reverse lookup records - i.e.
>
>198.162.0.1.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ns1.mydomain.com
>
>Their DNS servers must have authority for the whole 198.162.0 subnet,
>so when someone runs a reverse lookup outside of my net, they come up
>with nothing...  i.e.
>
>nslookup 198.162.0.1
>
>Is there any way that I can take the "authority" for my subnet (I'm on
>a 255.255.255.248 subnet)?  Or is this something that they are going to
>have a hard time helping me with?  Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Luc
>
>BTW, I'm running BIND 8.2.3 on two RH systems.
>
>
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