[25597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS for 16.172.in-addr.arpa
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Thu Oct 21 18:45:15 1999
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:59:21 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: grisha@verio.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
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>We were having a small problem here and I traced it down to a reverse DNS
>lookup on a 172.16 address hanging.
hmm...yeah. they'll do that.
>I noticed that a.root-servers.net reports that BLACKHOLE.ISI.EDU is
>authoritative for 16.172.in-addr.arpa.
>
>Is this the way it should be, or is the yet another network solutions
>mistake? Who should really handle DNS for rfc1918 addresses?
well...imho, they should be delegated to localhost. and everyone
should have a localhost zone with the proper address in it, to go with
their 127.in-addr.arpa zone file.
but then again, some people think i'm weird.
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