Re: DNS question

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From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 10/02/04 

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 02:58:34 -0500

"Todd J Heron" <todd_heron_no_spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> My experience with this is that if you "own" a static block of IP's, your
> ISP will allow you to manage the reverse zone for that block. I have run
> into this fortunate circumstance on two different situations. Of course,
I
> have alos heard otherwise, in different situations.

Probably only if the block is fairly large, on the order
of a class C net, for instance.

For one address, almost no one will let you manage it
yourself and it would just be a waste of (many people's)
time to try to do so.

If you have 5, 13, even 29 addresses (or maybe more)
then likely your ISP will not let you manage it -- nor
would you want to for this size and smaller, in most
cases.

Most people will fix these name/addresses and leave
them for years if they own a dozen or so.

The big companies (in the sense of web presence, e.g.,
Amazon, Land's End, Yahoo) would likely want to manage
their own but they likely live in a far more dynamic
environment and have 24/7 staff to deal with it.

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