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Re: in-addr.arpa?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Thu Jun 15 03:32:32 2000

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 02:50:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Um, because someone has a recond in their in-addr.arpa zone file for that
IP address that looks like one of the following:

104	IN	PTR	ip104.44.136.216

or 

104	IN	PTR	ip104.44.136.216.in-addr.arpa.


A common mistake is forgetting the "." after the record.  This will cause
the reverse to show as "what you wanted" + ".in-addr.arpa".

---
John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc


On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> 
> Why would 216.136.44.104 do something like this?
> 
> 10 sl-inetconn-1-0-0-T3.sprintlink.net (144.228.207.46) [AS 1239] 200 msec 204
> msec 208 msec
>   11 pa1-atm0-6-bbr01.alby.twtelecom.net (207.250.101.2) [AS 4323] 244 msec 
> 264 m
> sec 248 msec
>   12 pa1-atm0-5-acr01.alby.twtelecom.net (216.136.44.242) [AS 4323] 256 
> msec 252
> msec 252 msec
>   13 learnl-ppp-1130-09-u242.alby.twtelecom.net (207.250.24.30) [AS 3857] 
> 256 mse
> c 260 msec 256 msec
>   14 ip104.44.136.216.in-addr.arpa (216.136.44.104) [AS 4323] 404 msec 400 
> msec 3
> 80 msec
> 
> -Hank
> 
> 



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