Reverse DNS

[HipChris]

Has anyone here ever tried to get reverse dns to work on @home with their own hosts?
I run my own name servers, and everytime I go onto irc I always wish I was able to change my hostname instead of having that long @home one (without using an external proxy). Has anyone here ever successfully changed theirs?

From what I hear, I guess it's not possible. I've however read some stuff on bind and its possible to have classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation without needing full control over the entire class C. But i've tried giving my ips PTR records on my nameserver and it still doesnt work. <sigh>

Anyways, I was just wondering if there are any dns gurus out there that have figured out some trick to do their own reverse dns mappings on @home =)
I've tried asking @home to see if they would allow me to do my own reverse dns, or at the least, allow my ip to resolve to something else. But the tech support guys I've talked to don't even know what reverse dns is.

[Stef]

What OS are you running?

Is your host configured via DHCP?

You might be able to configure your DHCP client to request a specific host and domain name from the DHCP server. This in affect will override your ISP's default settings.

[wopr]

There is only one way, you have to contact @home and have them put in a PTR record for your domain... good luck. They control the numbers, it's that simple.

[tomsykes]

This won't work.

You wont be able to do it on your @home connections, because as mentioned 2 posts above by the Sys Admin, the reverse zone files are controlled by @home, and although entirely possible to add a pointer entry for your IP, they absolutely won't.

If your cable provider however gives you the option of having your OWN ip addresses - such as those assigned by ARIN or APNIC or whoever is responsible for IP Allocations in your country, this address space can be tunneled across (perhaps in a GRE or L2TP tunnel) and be used at your end.

This isn't the kind of service supplied with basic home cable services :)

Regards

Tom Sykes
Melbourne, Australia