Reverse lookup from Internet only worked when using dig +trace option

Villy Kruse vek at station02.ohout.pharmapartners.nl
Thu Sep 25 08:01:22 UTC 2003


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:48:18 GMT,
    Barry Margolin <barry.margolin at level3.com> wrote:


>In article <bk82ge$2826$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>>	Named does *not* follow CNAMEs when looking up addresses
>>	of namesevers.
>
>Isn't that a violation of the "be liberal in what you accept" principle?

You should also cite the second half of that: "be strict in what you send".

The "be liberal" principle is not supposed to be an excuse for sloppy 
implementations of servers.


Villy


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