[3444] in Athena Bugs
Re: bogus entry in /etc/named.root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Wed Oct 18 14:15:24 1989
From: jon@MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
To: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, netreq@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 18 Oct 89 08:54:52 -0400.
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 89 13:34:55 EDT
Just because you can't reverse resolve an address into a hostname does
not mean the host doesn't exist and doesn't provide whatever service
is in question (name root name service in this case).
There could be a connectivity problem (earthquake?) or nasa might doing the
in-addr stuff right or at all. Hostinfo doesn't seem to distinguish
between doesn't exist and time outs.
-- Jon
