Is this correct behaviour?
Michael Voight
mvoight at cisco.com
Mon Aug 9 17:56:41 UTC 1999
Anand S Medikeri wrote:
>
> Sorry for bothering again.
>
> As far I know in-addr.arpa domain maps IP addresses to hostnames. If
> my understanding is true then it dosen't make sense to load
> 6.5.4.3.2.in-addr.arpa RR since a host cannot have 1.2.2.3.4.5.6 as its
> IP address. And if it takes it to be CIDR than why is it not ture with
> A RR which when has data portion as 1.2.2.3.4.5.6 says not a valid IP
> addr.
>
> I am using nslookup to get the PTR records. For
>
> nslookup -type=ptr 1.2.3.4
> I get an answer and for
> nslookup -type=ptr 1.2.2.3.4.5.6
> I get an error message. So which one to fix nslookup or named.
>
> Please correct me if my understanding about in-addr.arpa is wrong.
What error did you get? I doubt the first query worked as entered on the
line above, since no zone name is specified.
THERE is no reason you can not have a record called
"1.2.2.3.4.5.6.in-addr.arpa". Your zone name, for RFC2317 purposes
could be 3.4.5.6.in-addr.arpa. It just a sone name. It is still legal.
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