Reverse DNS: Difference between revisions

Support staff can add a name on a per IP block basis and we'll automatically create reverse records, ege.g., if your block is 81.187.81.0/29 and we add the name hosts.testing.me.uk, then we'll create reverse records such as:

Delegation by NS works by putting your name server in our DNS for each of your addresses. e.g. if you had 217.169.0.0-3 then we would put your name servers for each entry 0.0.169.217.in-addr.arpa , 1.0.169.217.in-addr.arpa,2.0.169.217.in-addr.arpa,3.0.169.217.in-addr.arpa . This would mean you can create 4 separate zone files each of which has to normal SOA records, etc., and a single PTR record with the name for that IP address. This is logically the correct way of doing it as the reverse DNS zone is delegated at each level of control right down to the IP address level. It is rather tedious to set up lots of zone files though, especially if you have, say, 128 addresses.