Problem with reverse lookup in CIDR delegated domain [file details]

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Mar 5 23:04:55 UTC 2004


In article <c2b0hk$c7$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:

> Well, you're half right: there is exactly 1 PTR record in the zone, but 
> not where anyone would expect to find it (unless they were doing a 
> reverse lookup of an address with 5 octets, i.e. 67.116.182.184.186). So 
> I'm not sure what the point of this zone is...

The CNAME records in the parent zone should cause lookups to be 
redirected to this zone.  That's the point of RFC 2317.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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