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Randy Bush writes on 12/3/2003 10:18 AM: Well - unless you have a /24, in-addr.arpa is typically under the control of your upstream provider.you're right. it will be. people will have to clean up their in-addr.arpa. or am i missing some reason they can't, other than laziness? And at least some few upstream providers I have seen over the past few years are ignorant of basic DNS principles, and don't know how to do proper delegation. Their sending senior management off on junkets abroad, ostensibly to attend APNIC tutorials, seems to be a common cause. The actual admins often remain untrained. Come to think of it, quite a few such ISPs don't know to do proper BGP or proper anything else either ... If that is not the case, and the ISP does know to do reverse DNS, they often charge you $$$ for each line they add into their bind configs. One of the providers we were looking at (we were shopping for a /24) was charging a rather high sum per line added to their bind configs. What's more - their support was insisting that the config we sent them (just enough to let them delegate in-addr.arpa authority for the /24 to our nameservers) was "wrong". They apparently were under the impression we were going to pay them for each IP in the /24, to add rDNS. So, especially in countries where most if not all the IP providers you get are dumber than rocks, rDNS is often dismissed as an unnecessary luxury. Especially when you have maybe one IP allocated for a colocated server, rather than a /24 or two. srs -- srs (postmaster|suresh)@outblaze.com // gpg : EDEDEFB9 manager, outblaze.com security and antispam operations
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