Question about Reverse mapping name servers

[Jeff Lightner]

The reverse is just a lookup - it doesn't actually connect through.  So
long as they've delegated to that server and it provides the right
answers there should be no problem.   You have to have whoever assigned
you the IP range do a delegation of the reverse lookups to your DNS
servers - this is separate from the DNS server configurations you do at
the registrar which is for the forward lookups.

Of course you really should have at least two DNS servers for forward
and reverse lookups for redundancy.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Reedy, Sean
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:58 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Question about Reverse mapping name servers

Can a DNS servers provide reverse-mapping (in-addr.arpa) for a block of
IP addresses if those DNS server don't have an IP address in that block?


I'm asking because ARIN requires two name servers whenever you receive a
block of addresses from them.

How do you delegate reverse lookup to other name servers from the name
servers you informed ARIN of?

Thanks,

Sean Reedy

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