From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jan 6 23:18:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0709B37B754 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14F9gm-0000O1-00; Sat, 06 Jan 2001 23:52:25 -0700 Message-ID: <3A581228.2DBAD34C@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 23:52:24 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Bush Cc: Peter Brezny , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: general question re: PTR records. References: <000101c0781d$9b4a5ae0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> <3A5808B5.6ECDBAA1@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Randy Bush wrote: > > >>> jack.com. IN A x.y.z.q > >>> ... > >>> q.z.y.x-in.addr.arpa. IN PTR jack.com. > >> hint: what would be the label of such a zone? i.e. what is the label on the > >> soa? > > The domain in reverse, i.e. > > 42.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA > > would begin the SOA record for a 192.168.42 address. > > then how would one find the jack.com. name in the 42.168.192.in-addr.arpa. > zone? One would not find jack.com. in that zone. One might find 12.42.168.192.in-addr.arpa with a PTR value of "jack.com". If one wanted to find jack.com, one would look in the .com domain. If one was interested in success, that is. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message