PTR records required?

Re: PTR records required?

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At 1:23 PM -0800 12/4/99, Noah Price wrote:
>On 12/2/99 5:40 AM, Men & Mice Support <cbuxton@menandmice.com> wrote:
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>> We've found that reverse records are the biggest source of problems
>> on the net. Many people don't realize that, for example, the reverse
>> zone is not automatically delegated along with their domain, and that
>> they have to work out a solution with their provider.
>
>Not to mention that delegation of smaller than class C blocks (RFC 2317)
>doesn't seem well known. My ISP had no clue what I was talking about until I
>referred him to the specific RFC, and even then didn't want to deal with it.
>
>My ISP claims they will eventually provide a web interface to allow
>customers to update their own reverse DNS. They're using BIND on a Unix
>platform, so this won't help me in that situation, but it would be
>interesting to allow updates to QDNS with password access on a
>domain-by-domain basis, and on an address range basis for reverse DNS. I
>don't necessarily want QDNS burdened by a web server, but has anyone tried
>this via plugin or other CGI? Is QDNS or QDNS admin scriptable enough to
>allow this?

It should be possible; QuickDNS Admin's scripting interface is a little quirky, but anyone who wants to tackle this is more than welcome to ask us for help in getting Admin to jump through various scripting hoops.

BTW: If your provider wants the simplified version of how to implement RFC 2317's instructions, you can tell them they can contact us for help. It might be better if they did so on this list, but they can also contact us at support@menandmice.com. Just make sure they mention that the customer for whom they are looking into this is using QuickDNS Pro.
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