Reverse lookups

[Kevin Darcy]

If you own the whole 216.206.184/24 netblock, this setup is correct. The
only thing you'd need to do is get your provider (Qwest?) to delegate
that zone to your nameservers.

If you own something less than the whole 216.206.184/24 netblock, you
need to talk to your provider about how best to do the delegation. They
may prefer to delegate each address as a separate zone (so you'd have a
zone for 40.184.206.216.in-addr.arpa), or they may want to go the
RFC 2317 route...


- Kevin

Magnus Thorne wrote:

> xmit.evoice.com resolves to 216.206.185.40
>
> I've got the following in named.conf
>
> zone "185.206.216.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "db.216";
> };
>
> in db.216, I have:
>
> @       IN      SOA     evoice.com. hostmaster.evoice.com.  (
>                                       200106061 ; Serial
>                                       28800      ; Refresh
>                                       14400      ; Retry
>                                       3600000    ; Expire
>                                       86400 )    ; Minimum
>         IN      NS      ns.evoice.com.
>
> 40      IN      PTR     xmit.evoice.com.
>
> What else do I need to get the reverse lookup?  Do I actually need to
> register an IP?
>
> thanx,
> -Mag
>
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