From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 14:19: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196B337B592 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA14219; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 23:18:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <39834B29.153F1A5F@eboa.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 23:22:49 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reverse dns References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > I know that when somebody wants to resolv xyz.com this is first asked to > root servers then to the dns server of the domain(which is found from the > root servers) > > But I wonder if you want to lookup the name given for an IP address > then how come the program knows which dns server to query? There are registrars like IANA, RIPE, etc. which dole out IP ranges. There is probably some algorithm to decide which registrar to query since I haven't heard about IP root servers. Mind you, haven't really given it much thought, either. Roelof -- UPC/Chello home http://nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message