[TriLUG] Reverse DNS

[Brian McCullough]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 07:45:45AM -0400, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Joseph is precisely correct. They may delegate to you via CNAME, but you'll
> still need their involvement.

Thank you both.  I have passed Joseph's comment on to my friend so that
he can contact the address range owner.



> Try this command for a look into how it works (with your IP instead of the
> RFC 1918 address below):
> 
> $ dig +trace -x 10.0.0.10

Interesting, sort of.

When I did that, all I got was the root servers.

When I did it with my own IP address, I got a PTR record from
bellsouth.net.



Brian