delegation of subnet to remote DNS?

[Seth Roth]

SBC is being unnecessarily un cool. I have dealt with them on a similar
issue in the past and I had to ask to "speak with a supervisor" and
eventually I had a tech that simply added my reverse pointer - And AOL
is being un cool as well - You have to speak to their IT tech side (ask
for a manager) and they will unblock your reverse name from its mail
filter. It sucks I know, but I did the exact same thing.

DOh! =20

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of andrew kagan
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:52 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: delegation of subnet to remote DNS?

Hi All:

I have a client for whom I'm providing DNS and webhosting services. They
recently got static-IP ADSL service for their office through SBC.
They've
started running their own mail out of the office, but they're having
connection problems with AOL, etc.

SBC's reverse zone has a PTR of
"adsl-XX-XX-XX-XXX.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net"
(where the XX's are the IP address).

The client says AOL told them that the NAME of the IP address was reason
enough for them to block it...not even that the IP address itself was in
a
blacklist.

SBC is refusing to change the PTR to a friendlier name. They suggested,
since we're providing the DNS for the domain, that they delegate
authority
for the IP address reverse zone to us.

Since I am nowhere near SBC's pool of IPs, I'm just wondering a) if it's
even possible or may cause more problems and b) if this is a common
thing to
do?

TIA, Andrew