Simple reverse delegation

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a1045q$39g at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
baywood  <baywood at nopambigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:35:12 -0800, Thomas Seyrat wrote:
>>   Even if this is an RFC, some ISPs don't really like this technique,
>>   especially when it comes to delegate PTRs for small networks.
>
>I'd be curious as to why. I got the impression NS delegation was 
>pretty typical but then I haven't seen to many reverse zones. I thought
>the purpose of the single, container zone, NS delegation (rfc2317) was
>for the benefit of the delegated (single zone file) and not the ISP.

Consumer ISPs generally don't want to have to customize DNS for individual
customers.  It's much easier for them to have a script or $GENERATE command
that fills in the entire reverse DNS with generic hostnames.

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