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Hurray for NANOG

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Harms-Merbitz)
Mon Apr 24 16:53:20 2000

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:51:14 -0700
From: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net>
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Turns out that @Home name servers were frantically trying to do
a reverselookup on a customer of a customer's IP.

We put in a dummy reverse that at least made the traffic levels
go down. Question now is why a missing PTR record would make name
servers go wild.

Hurray for @home to respond!
Hurray for NANOG!

Dirk


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