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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Named and Reverse DNS lookups [PATCH]
To: jc@irbs.com (John Capo)
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 18:10:44 -0500 (CDT)
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> Joe Greco writes:
> >
> > I had reason to play with it around the time 2.1R came out, I couldn't get
> > it to work, and someone on either the BIND list or the domains newsgroup
> > confirmed that the BIND in FreeBSD did not support it.
> > 
> > I would be delighted to be proven wrong, of course, because we need things
> > like this.
> 
> The resolver is broken, not BIND. :-(

OOOOOOFFF, ok, well that should have been an obvious second guess.  I didn't
look at it for more than 15 minutes.

That, however, suggests a pitfall of the technique:  you may break on hosts
with older resolvers :-(

... JG