Maybe when the ISP said it's "automatic" they meant they have an automated way of naming and it's complete. I've never worked with Eschelon but they have been around for some time now. FYI... VISI ROCKs as an ISP. BTW power was out in the south west suburbs for about an hour today. Phones worked but then they almost always work. That is one thing Qwest can do well, the hard wire phone network always works. Sam. Tom Penney wrote: >I want to make sure I am understanding ptr records correctly before I >have to go to the wall with the PHB's on this. We have a /29 block of IP >addresses though our service provider. The way I understand it I can not >set up PTR records for a small block of ip's like that. Am I right? One >can only be authoritative for a whole class c block of 256 ip's,(/24) >because of the way the .in-addr.arpa. domains are named. >(123.123.123.in-addr.arpa.) > >If I am correct shouldn't the provider automatically have ptr records >set up for every small block of ip's they assign? I know visi does. I >have requested this service provider (eschelon) set up reverse lookup >for our ip's. They had told me not to worry about it because "it is all >automatic". Well there are no prt records and the PHB's think I on >crack. > >so my question to you folks who are not on crack is: Can I set up >reverse lookup on a small block of ip's or does this have to be done by >the ISP? > > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list