Search Again: Re: reverse From: Aaron Lynch Date: Friday, July 7, 2000 Time: 2:40:57 am Your Honor; on 7/7/00 2:08 AM, the Defendant, Men & Mice Support, confessed: > At 1:48 AM -0700 7/7/00, Aaron Lynch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It seems like our ISP is flaking on our reverse DNS, and I don't really know >> how to check and see if they have anything delegated to me or not. When I >> do a dig on their name server for our ip's (207.149.222.0/24) what do I want >> to see if they have delegated the reverse properly? > > You can't start at their servers. You have to start at the root > servers, so you know which of their servers (if any) to query. > > Here's the delegation, from the beginning: > > from f.root-servers.net: > 149.207.in-addr.arpa. NS ns1.savvis.net. > 149.207.in-addr.arpa. NS ns2.savvis.net. > > from ns1.savvis.net: > 222.149.207.in-addr.arpa. NS ns1.savvis.net. > 222.149.207.in-addr.arpa. NS ns2.savvis.net. > 222.149.207.in-addr.arpa. NS ns3.savvis.net. > The host or domain "1.222.149.207.in-addr.arpa." does not exist > The host or domain "2.222.149.207.in-addr.arpa." does not exist > 3.222.149.207.in-addr.arpa. PTR ns3.ninewire.com. > > So the answer is, they could delegate it to you (since they own > 207.149.0.0/16), but they haven't done so. So, when they do delegate it, when I ask ns1.savvis.net for 222.149.207.in-addr.arpa. I should get NS records for my name servers. Right?

Messages In This Thread: reverse by Aaron Lynch on Jul 7, 2000 at 1:49:03 am Re: reverse by Men & Mice Support on Jul 7, 2000 at 2:09:55 am Re: reverse by Aaron Lynch on Jul 7, 2000 at 2:32:07 am Re: reverse by Aaron Lynch on Jul 7, 2000 at 2:40:57 am Re: reverse by Men & Mice Support on Jul 7, 2000 at 2:50:49 am