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> > Here again the 'real' log message:
> > Jun 30 02:48:38 blues supfile[9411]: gethostby*.gethostanswer: asked for
> > "1.41.100.194.in-addr.arpa", got "1.0.41.100.194.in-addr.arpa"
> 
> Hummm... this a rather interesting thing they have done... not sure how
> well other systems like this, but it seems to kinda work if I do the
> resolv manually.

This is described in the ''Classless in-addr.arpa delegation' draft
proposal (I don't remember which RFC), but it should be found by
searching the FreeBSD archives.  This came up when I was setting up my
hosts to live in their new 'C--' (not quite a class C) domain.


Nate