Reverse DNS and single IP address space

Andy Harrison ah54 at httpsite.com
Thu Mar 27 10:45:09 PST 2003


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On 27-Mar-2003, James Earl wrote message "Reverse DNS and single IP address
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> Or, do I even need to worry about reverse DNS entries since my ISP 
> already has them setup?

You don't need to worry about it.  DNS for ip ranges is reversed by whatever
server is configured to be authoritative at ARIN.

It *is* possible to trick dns into delegating reverse for individual ip's, but
finding an isp that will do it is very rare.



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Andy Harrison
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