FW: Delegating reverse DNS to a customer

[Tim Huffman]

Thank you for everyone's help. I'm going to pursue this with ARIN, since that seems to be the right way to do things.

Tim Huffman
Director of Engineering
Business Only Broadband, LLC
O (630) 590-6012
C (630) 340-1925
tim at bobbroadband.com
www.bobbroadband.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-
> bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:33 PM
> To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Re: FW: Delegating reverse DNS to a customer
> 
> bsfinkel at anl.gov wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Tim Huffman<Tim at bobbroadband.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Guys,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> We're a smallish (but growing) ISP, and we've been asked by one of our
> >> customers to delegate reverse DNS for 63.250.251.0/24 to their DNS
> servers,
> >> ns1.emns.com - ns4.emns.com. Unfortunately, we've never had to delegate
> DNS
> >> to a customer before, and we're having problems getting it to work.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> We're running BIND 9.5.1 on Fedora.
> >>
> >
> > In your zone
> >
> >      251.250.63.in-addr.arpa   (If you do not have a zone, create it.)
> >
> > place the following four NS records as delegation records:
> >
> > @    IN  NS  ns1.emns.com.
> >      IN  NS  ns2.emns.com.
> >      IN  NS  ns3.emns.com.
> >      IN  NS  ns4.emns.com.
> >
> > I believe that that will delegate the /24 to those servers from your
> > servers.  The delegation could occur at the parent level, but you
> > do not control the parent
> >
> >      250.63.in-addr.arpa
> >
> > zone.
> >
> No, you can't do a "sideways" delegation like that.
> 
> The correct solution, as stated elsewhere, is to get
> 251.250.63.in-addr.arpa delegated directly from ARIN to the customer.
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> _______________________________________________
> bind-users mailing list
> bind-users at lists.isc.org
> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users