Reverse DNS lookup

[Jeff Grossman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of
> Johnathan Leppert
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:30 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Reverse DNS lookup
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a T1 customer and whenever I do forward lookups on my domain, it
yields
> the correct IP. However, when I do a reverse lookup based upon my IP
it
> yields something like [myip].cust.provider.net. I don't currently run
my own
> nameservers, I use Public DNS. What type of bind configuration would
allow
> me to provide reverse lookup services for my IP, so my IP wouldn't be
> resolved to that myip.cust.provider.net.? Does it have something to do
with
> the in-addr.arpa config, because I see this often when I do reverse
lookups
> by IP.

You will need to talk with your ISP and see if they will either change
their reverse DNS for your IP to what ever you want, or see if they will
let you run the reverse DNS for your IP.

Jeff