Re: reverse lookup - create PTR

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"Ace Fekay [Microsoft Certified Trainer]" <firstnamelastname@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ekL0ci1rJHA.1144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In news:%23S$Nz9zrJHA.724@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP] <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, posted the following:

Yes, this is AT&T's policy on PTRs, I have several customers that use
AT&T and have Exchange servers and I have to have them delegate
Authority for the reverse lookup about once a year for new customers.
If you have a server that can be freed up that is not hosting
internal zones, they will delegate the lookup to it if you register
it with your registrar as a public host server, then believe it or
not they will host a Secondary of the reverse zone at no charge. I
just had this done yesterday for a Uverse customer and they had the
delegation up overnight (I got lucky and talked to someone that
speaks real Texas English, so that helped). This customer did already
have two registered host servers so no secondary was needed. FYI, if
you do choose a delegation, name your zone by the full reverse
Network address, for example if you have a block of 5 like
192.168.200.209-213, the actual network address is 192.168.200.208
(CIDR 192.168.200.208/29) and the last IP in the range is
192.168.200.215, the first and last IP are unusable, minus 1 for the
gateway, leave your 5. Anyway, in my example, name your zone
208.200.168.192.in-addr.arpa, you have to use the zone name field and
don't forget to allow zone transfer back to the server that will be
their Secondary. Then, you just create your PTRs as you normally
would.
Here is their DNS request form:
http://dialup.swbell.net/customer/dn_work***.html

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ATT took care of it for that customer I spoke about. That must be 6 years ago or longer. Did ATT change their policy over the years?


Hi Ace,

You have to recall the AT&T of today is not the same AT&T of even a few years ago, Southwestern Bell which was one of the Baby Bells that AT&T owned and became SBC after the AT&T split up back in the late 70's, bought up many of the other Baby Bells, then just a year or two ago became so big it bought AT&T, its former parent company. So the policies are actually policies enacted by SBC before they bought AT&T. Have you seen the parody done by Cobert?


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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
Hope This Helps

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