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Re: ARIN?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Tue Nov 10 21:56:09 1998

From: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>
To: jeffm@iglou.com (Jeff Mcadams)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 20:43:45 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E0zdOfJ-0006ha-00@iglou.com> from "Jeff Mcadams" at Nov 10, 98 08:01:45 pm

Jeff Mcadams wrote:

> Mostly because reverse lookups for blocks longer than /24's is still a
> hassle...it can be done, but is still a hassle...oh...and some things
> still break with CNAME -> PTR (a recent discussion on BUGTRAQ
> illuminates one)

I delegate the reverse lookups when requested, though few do so.  I have
a /28 at home and I have done the delegation.  And I did it without using
the CNAME trick.  I find it less confusing, although more stuff to type.
At least things don't break.

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