How to show another domain for a reverse lookup

Question

Today when someone do a reverse lookup for my website ip address, it gets my hosting server name (ie. server1.hosting.com). Instead, I want to show the hosted website domain (ie. mywebsite.com)

Can I set some kind of alias on the DNS zone to do that? How should it be?

Thank you

Too bad this is flagged as off topic as it is exactly what I need for my hosting. — Mugé, Oct 02 '19 at 09:15

Sven · Answer 1 · 2016-11-01T11:29:15.353

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This usually needs to be done by the hosting provider, as they control the reverse zone with your IP address. Check their docs and/or ask their support to learn how to do this.

Regarding aliases: That is now how reverse lookups work.

If you have indeed control over the reverse zone for your IP address, the PTR record should look like this:

<ip>   PTR   www.example.com.

This would lead to a reverse lookup for your IP to result in www.example.com.

edited Nov 01 '16 at 11:29

answered Nov 01 '16 at 11:13

Sven

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I have control over the DNS zone throught WHM – Michel Curti Nov 01 '16 at 11:23
Do you have control for the forward zone (e.g. `example.com`) or the reverse zone? This is a major difference! – Sven Nov 01 '16 at 11:25
I want to put your answer as the right one, but aparently I can't because the topic is on hold and I don't know why. Could you review it? Thank you – Michel Curti Nov 01 '16 at 17:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '16 at 11:13

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Unless you have a substantially large net block (range of continuous IP addresses), it’s most likely that your ISP/hosting provider retains control over the DNS zone for your IP address. You would need to ask them to configure the PTR record corresponding to that IP address to mywebsite.com.

answered Nov 01 '16 at 11:13

Anthony Geoghegan

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I have control over the DNS zone throught WHM – Michel Curti Nov 01 '16 at 11:21
What I want to know is exactly how this PTR record should be – Michel Curti Nov 01 '16 at 11:25
You most likely only have control over the *forward* zone. A PTR record looks like `789.56.4.123.in-addr.arpa` but you should be able to just provide the relevant IP address to your ISP. – Anthony Geoghegan Nov 01 '16 at 11:56

How to show another domain for a reverse lookup

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