Classless in-addr.arpa delegation
Andres Bauman andresb at uninet.ee
Wed Feb 7 16:38:28 CET 1996
Hi There is at least one operating system, where this method described in draft-degroot-classless-inaddr-00.txt, and supposed by RIPE, does not work. It is FreeBSD. Their resolver libarary cannot handle CNAME answers for PTR queries. In their case you just see on console something like: Feb 7 16:53:00 cache traceroute: gethostby*.gethostanswer: asked for "177.96.40.193.in-addr.arpa", got "177.128.96.40.193.in-addr.arpa" Regards, ANdres ----------------------------------------------------------- Andres Bauman | Internet: andresb at uninet.ee AS Nosper Ltd. | Phone: +372 6308858 Ravala pst. 10 | Fax: +372 6317984 EE0001, Tallinn, Estonia |
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