[23354] in North American Network Operators' Group
domain IN-ARPA.ADDR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jin Yixin)
Mon Mar 15 21:07:06 1999
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:02:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Jin Yixin <yjin@CS.UCLA.EDU>
To: nanog@merit.edu
I was trying to find a way to check whether an IP address is used by some
host without actually probing it. DNS sounds like a good way to go, but
I'v heard that domain "IN-ARPA.ADDR" is not well maintained and updated.
Is that true? If so, how un-dependable it could be?
Thanks a lot
Yixin Jin
UCLA, Computer Science Dept.
