AT&T refuses to provide PTR records?

Tue Oct 17 20:31:42 UTC 2006

We have a customer that has AT&T and they reassigned the IP space to our
name servers to allow us to do reverse DNS for them.

Mike Walter, MCP
Systems Administrator
3z.net a PCD Company
http://www.3z.net

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
David Hubbard
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:21 PM
To: NANOG list
Subject: AT&T refuses to provide PTR records?

Anyone familiar with AT&T's policies on PTR records
for their customer-assigned address space?  We have a
customer whose website we host that has their own
in-house mail server that they run off of their AT&T
internet connection at their office.  We handle the
DNS for their domain name.  AT&T is refusing to set
up PTR records for them because they're not handling
DNS for the domain name.  Is this normal?  I haven't
dug through the ARIN agreements but I thought it was
required to provide reverse DNS on your allocations.

Thanks,

David