not authoritative

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Jan 12 19:54:48 UTC 2001


In article <93nm83$hvm at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Steven Fagan  <SFagan at evokesoft.com> wrote:
>
>I have a partial class C from Verio here in Austin, TX.  I want to setup a
>my own internal DNS.  I have everything but the reverse lookup working fine.
>When I try the reverse lookup it says xx.xx.xx.xx not authoritative for
>xx.xx.xxin-addr.arpa.  Is there a easy way around this.  I do not want to
>have to get Verio involved if I can help it.

Is xx.xx.xx.in-addr.arpa the reverse domain for the class C that you have
part of?  You're not supposed to be authoritative for the whole class C
reverse domain, Verio is.

Verio should delegate the partial class C to you using the technique in RFC
2317.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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