To:
Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Jim Reid <Jim.Reid@nominum.com>
Date:
Wed, 09 May 2001 17:12:17 -0700
In-Reply-To:
Message from Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net> of "Thu, 10 May 2001 01:06:53 +0200." <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10105100101550.509-100000@kantoor.ripe.net>
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Subject:
Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?
>>>>> "Shane" == Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net> writes:
Shane> Okay, I'll bite. What does it mean to have a PTR record in
Shane> anything other than the in-addr.arpa tree?
It just means there's a PTR record in a zone outside the in-addr.arpa
tree. Whether that has any significance or not depends on whether
something knows to look for that PTR record. For instance a server
might come across it by following a CNAME when resolving a query. This
is how some folk implement simplified RFC2317 style reverse lookups.
Take a look at 6.242.6.62.in-addr.arpa for example.