I suggest doing something like:

dig +trace -x 204.42.254.5

You can watch the delegation authority for the in-addr at each stage.

- Jared

On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Caleb Tennis wrote:

> We have a /24 from one of our upstream providers that we handoff to a 
> customer.  The /24 has been SWIPd to us, and we have nameservers setup with 
> ARIN against that record.
> 
> Twice now this information has just "disappeared".  That is, if do reverse 
> DNS lookups, they returns nothing, whereas they were just working fine 
> earlier.  If you do an NS lookup on the block, it returns nothing.  The /24 
> blocks immediately surrounding us continue to work just fine.  If we do a 
> lookup directly against our nameserver, it works just fine.
> 
> It's like the nameserver information against that reverse DNS is just 
> magically gone.
> 
> The ARIN record looks good, nothing has changed. Last time, our upstream 
> resubmitted the info so it would repopulate, and it started working again 
> soon there after.  I admit to not being the smartest one with how these 
> records work: is the problem with the upstream, or ARIN's database, or is 
> there not enough information to tell?
> 
> Thanks,
> Caleb


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