weird in-addr.arpa alias on reverse lookups

Michael Kjorling michael at kjorling.com
Tue May 21 16:50:17 UTC 2002


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On May 21 2002 14:57 -0000, Yuri Victorovich wrote:

> I have primary DNS server for few domains.
> And they except other things handle
> reverse lookup for classless (/28) network.
>
> When anyone issues reverse request it resolves
> it but always gives also alias for this IP:
> Aliases: XXX.XXX.XXX.in-addr.arpa.

This is perfectly normal for a RFC 2317-style delegation.


Michael Kjörling

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