in-addr.arpa

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Feb 21 16:02:50 UTC 2000


In article <38AF5FCA.C7726F94 at yahoo.com>,
themediocre  <themediocre at yahoo.com> wrote:
>quick one, how to create the reverse IP address, if I have my NS1,NS2 on
>the Public DNS at GRANITECANYON.COM, and my ISP does not cooperate for
>this redelegation?
>many thanks

If your ISP doesn't delegate the address block to you, then you can't do
your own reverse DNS.  DNS is based on hierarchical delegation; the
maintainer of y.z.in-addr.arpa has to delegate x.y.z.in-addr.arpa.

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