On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:34:56PM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:26:35 +0200, Alexander Dalloz > <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >Without knowing your specific situation we can't decide. The general > >answer must be: the DNS who is authoritative for the IP. Who is > >responsible / autoritative is stored at the RIPE. And as Luciano posted, > >the responsibility can be delegated. > > > >On the other hand, if you run a DNS in your LAN with your own private > >domain, then of course your DNS reverse resolve the IPs, as long as you > >configured not only a forward zone but a corresponding reverse zone too. > > > >Alexander > > > > > > What it boils down to is this, we have Network Solutions as our primary > DNS servers so we don't use our ISPs for handling our DNS records. I want > to bring our primary in house but my boss is terrified that if out T1 goes > down we are screwed. Have network solutions and/or your ISP work as secondaries to your master server. That way, you have total control while still being as reliable (as far as your T1 is concerned) as you are now. (Even more, if you get both your ISP and network solutions's servers for secondaries.) > Well, yeah if it goes down our site's not up so why > would our DNS be so important. Some email servers consider a failure to do a dns lookup more serious than being unable to contact the mx servers. > We need to be able to reverse DNS for the > email we send to be sent properly. For just that, have a caching name server and add only the reverse zone to it. No need to change the masters for your domain. Regards, Luciano Rocha
