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Re: in-addr.arpa?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Goodall)
Thu Jun 15 05:49:35 2000

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:48:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc: hank@att.net.il, nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:

> Because the people who run the name servers for 44.136.216.in-addr.arpa,
> for unknown reasons, have added entries of the form
> 
> 104.44.136.216.in-addr.arpa.  PTR  ip104.44.136.216.in-addr.arpa.
> 
> I guess they want to hide something, and still have a DNS reverse entry.
> It's rather pointless IMHO, since we can use whois to get 
[snip]

or possibly an autogenerated placeholder that no-one's bothered to update.


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