[95062] in North American Network Operators' Group
rDNS naming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Tue Feb 20 16:11:06 2007
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:10:03 -0800 (PST)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070216141734.GA13701@gsp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--- Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
> (e.g. the Verizon
> FIOS deployment, if I
> may use hostnames of the form *.fios.verizon.net as
> a guide, is going
> well in NYC, Dallas, DC, Tampa, Philly, LA, Boston
> and Newark, but lags
> behind in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and
> Syracuse.)
One thing to watch out for in interpreting rDNS is
that it can be deceptive. As of about two weeks ago
(last time I checked), Verizon didn't offer FiOS in DC
at all. What you're seeing is probably some of the
newer suburbs in Virginia (possibly Maryland too)
which are vaguely near DC.
$.02
-David
David Barak
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