Hi,
> There's probably a fairly fundamental gap in my understanding so any
> pointers would be appreciated.
No worries. PTRs coming up... ;-)
> I'm a bit confused by this, I suspect, because I'm more used to setting this up with IPv4 through nice, easy to use control panels!
>
> I want to give my VPS's IPv6 address a reverse DNS entry.
>
> - DNS for my domain is provided by 123-reg.
> - I can see in the Bitfolk panel that I can delegate RDNS to various name servers.
> - 123-reg don't offer the option of PTR records in their control panel
> - I can see how to make zone files here http://rdns6.com/zone
>
> Am I stuck if 123-reg won't let me create PTR records?
Not at all: your forward and reverse zones (domains) are entirely
separate things. You need to arrange DNS hosting for both of them.
123-reg provide you some hosting for the forward zone only.
> Can I use the bitfolk panel to delegate to a completely different name server? Would there be a problem using my VPS as the name server?
This is a good way to do it. You'll have to run a name server on your
VPS. Bitfolk can also provide secondary servers: it's best for each zone
to have at least 2 servers, each on different networks.
Regards,
@ndy
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