Re: Registrar hosting DNS vs. myself

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You had a great detailed answer by Herb Martin. I understood some of it
myself! LOL!

However, a very simple way to solve your dilemma is to ask your ISP to
configure your reverse lookup. This reverse PTR is normally done by the ISP
who sold you the IP addresses. This is virtually never done by your domain
registrar.

And... the ISP who sold you the IP addresses damn well should do this for
you for no extra charge. It is part of the IP purchase deal, in my opinion.

I think the only real mistake you are making is talking to your DNS
registrar about it. They don't need to know a thing, or be contacted at all
about this.

BTW, you are sure right about a lot of mail servers requiring a reverse DNS
entry (probably most!). That's a fact.

-Frank

"John Smith" <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ux%23u8sksFHA.2936@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
>
> Couple weeks ago I asked a question regarding hosting W2k3 DNS on our
> servers and the few who responded, suggested, I should let the registrar
> host the DNS instead. So I went to NetSol and configured DNS.
>
> The problem is that NetSol does not do reverse DNS, and I need this for
> our MX record otherwise some mail servers will not accept transport from
> our mail server. NetSol suggested to me to move my DNS to ZoneEdit.com.
> The next problem is that Zoneedit says I need to have a class C IP range
> before I can do reverse DNS. I only have half class C. I can probably
> ask our T1 provider to host our DNS for a fee, but my company does not
> want to spend a dime more on this. Plus we like to have more control over
> our DNS.
>
> So, here is my question: If I host my own DNS with reverse DNS for half
> class C IP range, whould my reverse DNS work?
>
> Thank you
> JS
>
>
>


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