How do people do their own RDNS without a full class C ?

Pete Ehlke pde at ehlke.net
Wed Jan 9 06:26:47 UTC 2002


* Patrick Thomas <user at clubscholarship.com> said, on [020108 19:26]:
> 
> I have a rack of computers collocated at a datacenter.  I do perform my
> own DNS on my own DNS server, BUT, I do not have an entire class C of
> addresses - I only have 64 addresses.
> 
> Therefore, my collocation provider says that I cannot do my own reverse
> DNS.  I cn do my own forward DNS, of course (which I already am) but since
> multiple people are using the class C block, the RDSN requests need to go
> to the collocation providers name servers.
> 
Your provider is simply wrong. Refer them to RFC 2317, which provides
clear examples of how to delegate on non-octet boundaries. Further
instructions can be found at

http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/archive.php?category=81&question=579

--Pete


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