On Fri, 10 May 2002, IvanK. wrote:

> I have registered my own domain, and through a dynaming DNS service set that
> domain to point to my dynamic IP address.  I can connect to my computer from
> outside using host.my.domain.  However, when I connect from my computer to
> outside servers, my domain is being reported as my-ip-address.nyc.rr.com.
>
> Using dhclient I added these three lines in /etc/dhclient.conf:
>
> send fqdn.fqdn "host.my.domain.";
> send fqdn.encoded off;
> send fqdn.server-update on;
>
> hoping to "force" my domain name upon my ISP's DNS server.  However, this
> doesn't have the desired effect.
>
> Am I making sense?  Is there a way to make reverse lookups return my
> domainname rather than the one my ISP assigns?

You are making sense, however the problem is that while you own your
domain name, you don't own your IP address.

To get reverse lookup to work would take your ISP's cooperation, and is
probably not something they'll do if you have a truly dynamic address.

Take care,

Bill