From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 14:25:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finland.ispro.net.tr (finland.ispro.net.tr [212.174.120.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDEC037B530 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by finland.ispro.net.tr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA75560; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:25:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:25:24 +0300 (EEST) From: Evren Yurtesen To: Roelof Osinga Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reverse dns In-Reply-To: <39834B29.153F1A5F@eboa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes but RIPE etc. are just giving the IP blocks to you. There is no information in their database about your domain name servers. Is there? If there is such information stored then no problem but I dont really think so. Evren On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Roelof Osinga wrote: > 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