Author: Skylar.W

New team member brought on!

Marbled Fennec Networks has gone through the interview process, vetting and getting to know a new volunteer who has passed all of our checks and is being setup to work alongside our teams. Aurora is a Florida fur who will be going through training with our network volunteers to begin their role as the secondary tech for our networking stack. Once everything is in place for them, they will be responsible for things like firmware upgrades, managing a Minecraft instance and helping with the support desk.

PTR on our leased /48 working!

We have been working with the LIR on setting up PTR for our ‘2602:f992:f3::/48’ network and this feature is now working correctly. Lookups will be answered by our name servers, meaning our default and member set records will now be returned. If you have a service on your subnet or a machine that needs reverse DNS name set, reach out to our support desk and let them know.

PTR on our Leased /48…Kind of

We poked the LIR a while back about our leased network range, 2602:f992:f3::/48, about getting the reverse DNS support added in and we were met with some technical issues the prevent them from delegating the zone to us.

Since then, our team has spent some time working on getting an understanding how to create and manage the reverse zone within our name servers. As of this evenin’, you can query our name servers directly to get the PTR record information for this zone from us. As configured, it probably is of little use to anyone, but the information is there and does resolve.

You can test this yourself by doing “nslookup -q=ptr 2602:f992:f3::1 multi.dns.marbledfennec.net” and you should get the result “1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.f.0.0.2.9.9.f.2.0.6.2.ip6.arpa name = icmp6.catos.furrix.zone.” back from our servers.

Our secondary server may return SERVFAIL for next 10-15 minutes as our zone updates need to transfer.
Our secondary server has transferred the zone in and is responding now.