Search Again: Re: reverse domain question From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 Time: 6:23:00 pm >An excerpt from an email to my iName account reveals: > >Received: from websurfhawaii.com (pueo0180.lava.net [207.26.206.180]) > >I want "pueo0180.lava.net" to say "mail.websurfhawaii.com". I asked my ISP >about control over the reverse records and he had this to say: > >---from my ISP--- >Currently we don't have a way to do this, but we are looking at offering >this at a later date. Your name server will need to support RFC 2317 >(classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation) to do this. QuickDNS Pro supports this. Why they can't do it now is anybody's guess - it's not a terribly difficult procedure. >In the meantime, you can send us a list of IP addresses and their >corresponding hostnames, preferably in this format: > >129 IN PTR host.domain. > >The number in the first column is the last octet of the IP address. >---end--- > >Can I easily export my info and just give it to my ISP? Use the Export Domain script, an AppleScript included with your QuickDNS Pro package. It will export your reverse zone to a standard BIND-format text file. You'll probably want to edit the resulting file with BBEdit and save it with Unix-style line breaks. You may need to add the IN to each line (though why they feel they need it, I don't know). This can be done with search and replace. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com http://www.menandmice.com

Messages In This Thread: reverse domain question by Donovan Watts on Jun 17, 1999 at 10:24:00 am Re: reverse domain question by Men & Mice Support on Jun 17, 1999 at 6:23:00 pm