[ale] more reverse DNS questions

[John Heim]

Last week I was asking about using godaddy for DNS. Well, I finally figured 
out how to get godaddy to let us run our own DNS server. Toward the bottom 
of the page for setting nameservers is a button called "Host summary". You 
have to enter the names and IP addresses of your nameservers on that page 
before you can enter them onto the list of nameservers for your domain. So I 
did that and now we are up and running.

Well, except for one thing. you can't do a reverse lookup on the IP address 
of our virtual machine. There is nothing I can do about that, right? This is 
a vm that is donated to us by a local web services company.  Its one thing 
to tell the world that www.iavit.org goes to 66.170.20.226. That can't mess 
anything up. But you can't have just anybody doing it the other way around. 
If that was something anybody could do, the internet could be severaly 
messed up.

So if I understand the way the internet works, I'm going to have to go to 
the company that donated the virtual machine and get them to contact their 
ISP on our behalf. Is that correct?

PS: Here is my forward lookup zone file. Can anybody tell me if I've done 
anything wrong?

$TTL 86400 ; 24 hours could have been written as 24h or 1d
$ORIGIN iavit.org.
@ IN SOA iavit.iavit.org. hostmaster at iavit.org. (
         2011062601 ; serial
         3H ; refresh
         15 ; retry
         1w ; expire
         3h ; minimum
        )
;define name servers on domain
    IN NS ns1
iavit.org.     IN TXT "v=spf1 mx ~all"
    IN  MX 10  mailhost
    IN  A      66.170.20.226
iavit IN A 66.170.20.226
lists IN A 66.170.20.226
ns1 IN A 66.170.20.226
ns2 IN A 66.170.20.226
mailhost IN CNAME iavit
wiki           IN CNAME iavit
www            IN CNAME iavit