[OT] DNSguruz pl help: whois structure, delegation & handling delegation with Tinydns.

[Paul Howarth]

Sanjay Arora wrote:
> Sorry for posting to Fedora list but could not find step by step
> instructions anywhere nor get any concerned list to respond...so thought
> of fedora list which has always been by last resort ;-)
> 
> Newbie to DNS technicals but can work with instructions if given
> in ./configure for complete idiots ;-)
> 
> 1. I have taken a static IP from my ISP 203.134.221.162 and the ISP has
> put up an entry in APNIC whois (please check the same)...to me it seems
> incomplete, as it does not give any contact information/tel/email for my
> organization NOR any abuse email Id etc. On asking, the ISP simply told
> me that nobody asks anything more in whois entry from them so I would
> have to tell what I want of them.
> 
> Please advise what a standard whois reply should show for an
> organisation and pointers to a RFC which guides the structure & field
> names of a whois record.

How refreshing to see someone *wanting* to provide appropriate contact 
information in their whois entry, when the world and his dog seems to be 
heading the other way and trying to hide their contact details, citing 
privacy reasons.

The output from whois servers around the world are notoriously 
inconsistent regarding formatting and content. However, you should be 
able tp get your ISP to add some "remarks" entries for your IP, listing 
your comtact details.

> 2. Classless delegation...I want to setup my own primary DNS Server on
> my DSL with secondary slave DNS servers on the net with DNS services
> like zoneedit.com etc. Now, I want my ISP to delegate my IP so, I can
> change my IP reverse DNS etc...(whenever I want instead of waiting for
> my ISP which takes over a month & multiple contacts, letters & faxes).
> 
> Please advise what the ISP requires to do and what I require to do & in
> what order. My ISP says that they will do whatever is possible but since
> they have never had a query for delegation for a single IP, so they are
> not sure.

This isn't going to be easy since this IP block does not appear to have 
had its reverse DNS delegated to your ISP by APNIC yet. That's the first 
step that they need to do.

Since you are only dealing with a single IP, you shouldn't need any of 
the complexities of a classless delegation. If they are prepared to do 
it, all they need to do is to delegate the 142.221.134.203.in-addr.arpa 
zone to your DNS servers, and you set up the SOA/NS/PTR records for that 
name on your own servers as you see fit.

Paul.