PTR record question.

Re: PTR record question.

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Hi Andrew,

Sorry I wasn't very clear. I have a "fractional" class C, of 14 ip addresses and several domain names. I'm providing the primary and secondary name service with QDNS Pro. Since its not a "full" class C my service provider is not set up to delegate the reverse domains to me. Hopefully this will change soon when he takes a look at RFC 2317. I inherited this setup from my predecessor and I noticed that he has some reverse domains entered in QDNS Pro. My question is, are they just being ignored since my upstream provider currently takes care of the "reverse domains." Are they even necessary?

Thanks

Brian
Digital Gear

>it's probably a good idea to have PTR record mapped to your DNS...but
>you're saying the ISP is providing DNS, so why are you using QuickDNS? as a
>primary or secondary?
>
>If you're providing primary DNS, then YOU have to create the reverse domain
>in QDNS (actually, it will create it for you, but you still might need to
>add the PTR for the DNS).
>
>If you're providing secondary DNS, then you wouldn't need to worry about
>thePTR records (the ISP should be taking care of the reverse and configuring
>it properly).
>
>PTR records ARE essential for mailservers and routing devices, but not much
>else.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brian Wallace" <brian@digitalgear.com>
>To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
>Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 6:39 PM
>Subject: PTR record question.
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I still have a lot to learn about DNS and I have a question I can't
>> find the answer to. I'm in one of those situations where I have
>> subnet smaller than a class c assigned to me. My service provider is
>> currently taking care of the PTR records for me. My question is do I
>> need to have any sort of PTR record entered into my primary or
>> secondary name servers which are running QDNS Pro. (By the way after
> > searching this mailing list I will be showing my service provider RFC
> > 2317 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2317.html. Hopefully I will be able
>> to run my own reverse records soon.)
> >
> > Thanks for your time and have a great day!
> >
> > Brian
> > Digital Gear
> >

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