Adding rules for reverse lookup (original) (raw)

If you need to control reverse lookups in your VPC, you can add rules to your outbound resolver endpoint.

To create the reverse lookup rule

1. Follow the steps in the previous procedure, up to step 5.
2. When you specify your rule, enter the PTR record for the IP address or addresses that you want a reverse lookup forwarding rule for.
   For example, if you need to forward lookups for addresses in the 10.0.0.0/23 range, enter two rules:
   • 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa
   • 1.0.10.in-addr.arpa
     Any IP address in those subnets will be referenced as a subdomain of those PTR records—for example, 10.0.1.161 will have a reverse lookup address of 161.1.0.10.in-addr.arpa, which is a subdomain of 1.0.10.in-addra.arpa.
3. Specify the server to forward these lookups to.
4. Add these rules to your outbound resolver endpoint.

Note that turning on enableDNSHostNames for your VPC automatically adds PTR records. See What is Amazon Route 53 Resolver?. The previous procedure is required only if you want to explicitly specify a resolver for given IP ranges—for example, when forwarding queries to an Active Directory server.

Creating forwarding rules

Associating forwarding rules with a VPC

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