Reverse DNS
The process of configuring a reverse DNS for a user depends on what colocation provider the user is with.
Also, note that whilst the DTC control panel has an option to set the rDNS there, this reports a small error to the user asking them to submit a support ticket.
If there are any existing entries on a certain IP address, feel free to remove them.
Rapidswitch
- Go to the MyServers interface
- Navigate to My Domains -> Reverse DNS Entries.
- Select the IP address and enter the domain name.
The rDNS record can only be set if the user has already set the forward pointing DNS record.
- However, for IPv6, they do not set this up and we have delegate this to our own servers, ns1 and ns2.gigatux.com. Users need to create a zone file based upon this zonefile generator and then Marc can add it to Cassandra.
Hurricane Electric
- Go to the he.net Administration panel.
- The username is ce2554 and supply the he.net admin password.
- Go to Active Domains for this Account and click on Edit Zone.
- Click New PTR
- At the bottom near Create new PTR record, set the name to match the above entries, with the first bit before the dot being the last bit of the IP address, e.g. 35.0-24.81.66.216.in-addr.arpa for 216.66.81.35. Set the pointer name to be the hostname.
- Click Submit.
Steadfast
- IPv4: Simply send an email to [email protected]
- IPv6: Log into a cPanel server (e.g. cpanel01002) and click Edit DNS zone. From there, search for and edit 7.1.0.4.0.0.8.2.1.f.7.0.6.2.ip6.arpa. The entry you need to add must only have the parts of the IPv6 PTR address not in the main record, so see the other examples in this file.
velia.net
- Log in to the velia.net panel and configure the Reverse DNS.
- For IPv6, you need to email velia.net's support team for them to manually set up the Reverse DNS