Reverse lookup on a subnet

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sat Dec 20 05:00:25 UTC 2003


In article <brvho8$28lb$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Stein Oddvar Rasmussen <stor at online.no> wrote:

> bill wrote:
> >>Um. Okay. What happens if I do not use reverse lookup at all?
> > 
> > 	Well, if its your prefix and you don't publish the data,
> > 	then not only do YOU "not use reverse lookup at all",
> > 	NO one else on the Internet will be able to do a reverse
> > 	lookup on your delegated address space.
> 
> Well, yes. Obviously. That I figured out on my own. What else? Will I 
> get arrested by the DNS-police? Will my domain-names stop working? Will 
> the internet masters shut me down?

Half the sites on the Internet don't have their reverse DNS set up, so 
you'd be pretty normal.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA


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