> Yea, mine with Cox-Internet is a commercial account, so ... For what they > charge me for a static ip address you would think they would bring me hot tea > in the morning. I maintain my zone records at UltraDNS. I have asked > Cox-Internet if they want to maintain them. However, I have complete control > over them at UltraDNS and will probably not move them. > > I have another server configured on a Velocity virtual domain server. No > problems there since they maintain their own block of ip addresses and can > insert a PTR record in the zone (as well as maintain my zone records). > However, they control the OS and I need to be able to have one that can be > changed at will. > > > If you want to understand why your ISP must make the PTR record change... > > > > Type: dig +trace -x yy.yy.yy.yy > > > > where yy.yy.yy.yy is your static IP address. The above dig command will > > follow the query back from the root name servers. The final "answer" > > should come from your ISP's name servers. > > The more I use dig, the more I appreciate it power. > > I tried calling tech support, but could not get by level 1 who was of little > help. I have sent an email to support. We will see where that goes. > > Thank you for the information. Here is the procedure for finding out who to write to get your reverse dns fixed: 1) start at the root servers 2) take the result from querying the root servers and query it in the same manner as in 1) 3) repeat 2 until you have reached the final delegation Example: [mgalgoci@cindy mgalgoci]$ dig -t soa -x 66.76.121.5 @a.root-servers.net ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> -t soa -x 66.76.121.5 @a.root-servers.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50247 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 7, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;5.121.76.66.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS chia.ARIN.NET. 66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS dill.ARIN.NET. 66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS henna.ARIN.NET. 66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS indigo.ARIN.NET. 66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS epazote.ARIN.NET. 66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS figwort.ARIN.NET. 66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS ginseng.ARIN.NET. ;; Query time: 84 msec ;; SERVER: 198.41.0.4#53(a.root-servers.net) ;; WHEN: Sun Nov 16 15:18:30 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 195 [mgalgoci@cindy mgalgoci]$ dig -t soa -x 66.76.121.5 @chia.ARIN.NET ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> -t soa -x 66.76.121.5 @chia.ARIN.NET ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64695 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;5.121.76.66.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 76.66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS ns1.cox-internet.com. 76.66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS ns2.cox-internet.com. ;; Query time: 81 msec ;; SERVER: 192.5.6.32#53(chia.ARIN.NET) ;; WHEN: Sun Nov 16 15:18:36 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 94 [mgalgoci@cindy mgalgoci]$ dig -t soa -x 66.76.121.5 @ns1.cox-internet.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> -t soa -x 66.76.121.5 @ns1.cox-internet.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32750 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;5.121.76.66.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 121.76.66.in-addr.arpa. 43200 IN SOA ns1.cox-internet.com. postmaster.cox-internet.com. 2003092201 10800 3600 691200 86400 ;; Query time: 117 msec ;; SERVER: 66.76.2.132#53(ns1.cox-internet.com) ;; WHEN: Sun Nov 16 15:18:43 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 109 So, the person you need to write to is postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx By rfc, the administrative contact for a particular zone is listed in the SOA (postmaster.cox-internet.com -> postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) That's how I got my reverse dns set up on my adsl static ip, though I go through earthlink. Regards, Matthew Galgoci -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
