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Re: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Wed Oct 30 13:29:00 2013

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:24:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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> I've never seen anyone put in rDNS for networks or broadcast addresses.

I've done this a fair bit, on both a personal and professional basis.  I find it quite helpful when I forget what the subnet masks are (or fail to apply them properly) and try and Do Something with an address that can't be a host.

Regards,
Tim.


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