Reverse delegation refusal nonsense.

[Derek J. Balling]

If they won't :

(a) delegate (/24 or greater)
(b) CIDR delegate (/25 or less)

then you have precisely two options:

(1) Not have rDNS
(2) Move to a new provider who does.

Although you might be able to do

(3) set up a VPN-like tunnel to someone else willing to be the endpoint and
give up an IP address, and then route all your traffic through the tunnel.

But that would suck ass.

D

At 9:36 PM +0000 3/4/01, Simon Allen wrote:
>My ISP are refusing to provide a reverse DNS for my IP because they claim
>it's a security risk (absurd I know, but they won't do it they say and
>that's final!).
>
>What can I do?  This is just so ridiculous I can't think of any sensible
>thing to do, apart from cancel my account but that might be tricky and/or
>costly (it is ADSL contracted for 1 year minimum).
>
>My ISP are an outfit called Madasafish (yea the name says it all doesn't
>it) in the UK. Their parent company are IOMART (who allocate the IPs). and
>my IP is a single IP in the range 212.38.190.x
>
>Regards, Simon.

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