[166550] in North American Network Operators' Group
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
In-Reply-To: <CACnPsNXJaKDRvmk-X3zUveWMqfN2yVwSmbyMh=eRWHNUd3n2zg@mail.gmail.com>
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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.