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IPv6 rDNS via API
wuzamarine
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I am searching for a provider that offers IPv6 rDNS updates via API.
Vultr does but I am about to dump them.
Nope for: Digital Ocean, Linode, EC2 and Rackspace. none offer it.
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Ask them to delegate your subnet to us and use our API (see signature)
If for some reason they wouldn't do that, what VPS providers have you worked with that would delegate rDNS to you?
^^
To be honest no idea
Because it can't be done. The gateway of the network must be configured for that network before it can accept traffic. rDNS is specifically designed to prevent any tricks/hacks in naming.
Nice try though.
wot are you talking about? You can subdelegate a /48, RDNS has zero to do who routes this block.
Subdelegation of /48 and larger should be done via the RIR, smaller should be a subdelegation on your own NS.
rDNS hits the NIC, following a step by step (in reverse) query of your name. If my name = ip address, the only way I get that traffic is if my gateway knows about my network. Routers connect network, so without a router or a tunnel, you can forget achieving http://www.dollardns.net/cgi-bin/dnscrawler/index.pl?server=&name=4.6.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.4.1.8.0.0.c.6.0.f.9.1.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa&type=PTR&class=IN&lr=12&submit=Send+Query#report
that final step is a setting at your ISP binding your name to your IP address at the very last network hop before your NIC.
So you are a new user, start to bash on many provider thread + bash on Vultr service that meet your API needs? Pretty good entry on LET community......
Your info is simply not true - The RIRs have the zone for their own larger blocks which give back the DNS of your ISP which either reply the query or forward it further. At NO POINT EVER is it required that the network is announced or in use.
I'm just looking for a new provider and not really finding any talent.
Just a developer on a mission.
It's not how it's work here.
Make a thread, ask you real requirements and wait for people to answer you. Stop to spam provider thread with "No API" call without telling what you need.
smirk it's called arpa and the network is in the name -> 235.43.126.75.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer cyberciti.org.
which means... nothing? Why would it ever touch your network?
I have multiple /48 IPv6 with working RDNS which are announced nowhere, works perfectly fine - RDNS resolves to RIPEs NS for the /20 netblock, RIPE gives my NS as its subdelegated there, request is resolved on my NS (which does not and should not be located inside the netblock it resolves).
Granted if the admin at vultr were willing to surrender reverse dns, a redirect is possible but I don't see any admin doing that for anybody.
forgive me partner, I read the apnic rDNS manual and I appear to of missed that trick. How do you get RIPE to point directly to your NS on not your ISP?
https://www.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/9792/Reverse-DNS-manual.pdf
I would love to unplug this dependency on a API feature. But it's the only solution I found. I run my own DNS, never came across a way to configure bind to do what you are saying. I thought it was impossible.
just signed up to tunnelbroker (free) get a /64 or a /48 and in the HE panel set your nameserver for rDNS delegation (where rage4 comes in) and then you can control all via an API. Or better yet just delegate to your own DNS server for automatic management.
You get the ripe maintainer of the IP block to create a 'domain' object setting the reverse name servers.
Thank you very much!
I gather IPv4 is the same way, but I don't see any IPv4 info on the Hurricane Electric website.
Who's the best IPv4 tunnel broker?
I work with a lot of email which requires both IPv4 and IPv6 rDNS.
You probably misunderstood how tunnelbroker works. Its a free services that you can get a /64 (or /48 on request) routed to your server (regardless where and with who it might be) over IPv4.
So in theory you will stick with your current provider or what not having IPv4 API support and to solve your issue with IPv6 rDNS api support (this thread) you could use tunnelbroker for this as they can do delegation. Just something to think about
Ubiquity Hosting can do this...
https://www.ubiquityhosting.com/
rDNS API :
http://api.ubiquityhosting.com/functions/dns/update_rdns_entry.php
I know how a tunnel works brother. I configure Cisco and OpenVPN frequently.
they give you a /64 and you choose 1IP from that block to announce to the world where my domain is and HE forwards the traffic down the tunnel.
I have the same rDNS requirements for IPv4
i.e.
https://www.vultr.com/api/#server_reverse_set_ipv6
and
https://www.vultr.com/api/#server_reverse_set_ipv4
so either HE or another broker needs to provide me with a new IPv4 address to point my domain to and then tunnel it to my NIC.
Would you be so kind as to explain "how a tunnel works" as I am sure that it will benefit some of us that are less knowledgeable, like me
You drive in one end, and come out the other. That's basically it.
Thank you. I kept looking for the light at one end. I guess I was over complicating it. /hijack
Imagine 'running' across the Inet with a imaginary Cat5 wire in hand and hardwiring the 2 devices together.
Same thing
If you are looking for a provider that delegates IPv6 to your own NS @wuzamarine we can help you out. We can even arrange for a PI subnet from RIPE if you have such needs and are willing to pay RIPE fees.
You can then go ahead with @gbshouse, they have a great Anycast DNS platform, to manage your reverse DNS for IPv6 via their API.
Let me know if I can help.
Why is IPv6 rDNS important at this time? Mailing?
My best guess is: fancy IRC hostnames.