Search Again: Re: without asking... is the reverse delegated to me? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 Time: 7:01:35 pm That depends on your ISP - are they able to handle the job competently? If your PTR records are missing or incorrect, the only problem that I know of that you're likely to have is with mail. Some mail servers will refuse to talk to your mail server. However, there may be other problems I'm not aware of - PTR records are often used as a means of verifying that you are really who you say you are. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! At 6:42 PM -0700 5/22/01, John May wrote: >What is the advantage of having the reverse zone delegated to >yourself? Does anything not work if it isn't? > > - John > >>At 6:32 PM -0400 5/22/01, Joseph D'Andrea wrote: >>>Without asking my ISP... although I will once I already have the >>>answer... is there a way I can tell if the reverse zone is delegated >>>to me? We have a classless "c". >> >>Trace the delegation. If you're not sure how to do that, tell me >>one of the IP addresses in this subnet and I'll trace the >>delegation for you. >> >>The tools that you can use for this are: >>- DNS Expert (of course) >>- dig or nslookup on any Unix machine >> >>Both dig and nslookup have a default setting of sending recursive >>queries. For this task, you want to send iterative queries instead. >>If you have Mac OS X, you can download Robert Woodhead's ShellShell >>utility; it contains a DNS query macro that uses dig and makes it >>easy to send iterative queries. The macro mimics DNS Expert's query >>tool as closely as I could manage with Robert's macro language. >> >><http://www.madoverlord.com/projects/shellshell.t> >>____________________________________________________________________ >>Chris Buxton Men & Mice >>cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! > > >-- > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >John May <mailto:jmay@pointinspace.com> >President / Media Developer <http://www.pointinspace.com> >Point In Space Internet Solutions ICQ: 35902494

Messages In This Thread: without asking... is the reverse delegated to me? by Joseph D''Andrea on May 22, 2001 at 3:34:21 pm Re: without asking... is the reverse delegated to me? by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on May 22, 2001 at 3:40:59 pm Re: without asking... is the reverse delegated to me? by Men & Mice Support on May 22, 2001 at 6:21:09 pm Re: without asking... is the reverse delegated to me? by John May on May 22, 2001 at 6:44:55 pm Re: without asking... is the reverse delegated to me? by Men & Mice Support on May 22, 2001 at 7:01:35 pm Re: without asking... is the reverse delegated to me? by Global Homes Webmaster on May 23, 2001 at 11:20:16 am Re: without asking... is the reverse delegated to me? by Men & Mice Support on May 23, 2001 at 6:21:03 pm