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Re: [mm] How is DNSSEC

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Mar 26 13:15:18 2008

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:46:40 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
CC: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>, 
 Perrys crypto list <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080322133500.GA6089@vacation.karoshi.com.>

bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> 	Er... Allow me the option o fdisbeleiving your assertion.
> 	PTR records can and do point to mutiple names.  Some narrow
> 	implementations have assumed that there will only be a single
> 	data element and this myth - that PTRs only point to a single
> 	name - is and has been spread widely.

You can disbelieve my assertion if you wish, but I am only quoting the 
RFC. RFC 1035, to be precise:

"Address nodes are used to hold pointers to primary host names
in the normal domain space."

(section 3.5. IN-ADDR.ARPA domain). So, the "myth" is in the scripture.

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