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Re: rDNS naming conventions (was: Re: SORBS Contact)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas Suan)
Thu Aug 10 16:41:46 2006

Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:40:29 -0500
From: "Nicholas Suan" <nsuan@nonexiste.net>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060810194403.GC11684@hesketh.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 8/10/06, Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com> wrote:
>
> on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:55:37PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > There's at least one vietnamese ISP that has / had till recently set
> > "localhost" as rDNS for all their IPs.
>
> IIRC, that was fpt.vn; they replaced 'localhost' with the incredibly
> useful:
>

There seem to be a couple in the area that do it:

As of 5 minutes ago:

% dig +short -x 203.160.1.3 -x 203.160.1.35
localhost.
localhost.

inetnum:      203.160.0.0 - 203.160.1.255
netname:      VNPT-VNNIC-VN
country:      VN

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