The recommendations in this draft proposal have worked for me: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic-naming-schemes-00.txt
Frank -----Original Message----- From: br...@yoafrica.com [mailto:br...@yoafrica.com] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:39 AM To: John Levine Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: REVERSE DNS Practices. Slighty related... Can people please post their recommended reverse dns naming conventions for a small ISP with growth and scalability in mind. I already have one drawn up, but I would like to contrast and compare :D Thanks On 21 Mar 2009 10:32:30 -0000, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: >> I want to ask some folks out there that maintain reverse DNS queries >>of their respective IP blocks. I want to know if there is a need for >>me to contact my upstream provider. I am in charge of 2 /24's under >>LACNIC. I've already registered my DNS servers on LACNIC. but for some >>weird reason it's not owning reverse resolves. any tips would be >>gladly appreciated. > > The RIRs don't maintain rDNS for you. You'll have to trace the > delegations downward from in-addr.arpa, find out who's handling your > /24's, and contact them to get them to delegate your chunks to you. > > R's, > John
