Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:33:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> Cc: David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com, matt <matt@BabCom.ORG> Subject: Re: [Systalk] localhost.org (fwd) Message-ID: <199911181833.KAA86668@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911181328120.21200-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com>
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:: the IP alias resolve to domain.com both forward and reverse while the
:: primary IP for the host resolves properly to host.domain.com both
:: forward and reverse.
:
:Strictly speaking, this isn't a practical problem. Situations
:where reverse and forward lookups must match (i.e. when using TCP
:wrappers) operate by (a) having an IPv4 address (b) reverse-lookupping
:it (c) forward-lookupping the result of the reverse lookup. If
:you assign multiple A records to a single domain name, you are
:breaking spec, but it doesn't cause any practical problems
:(presently...)
:
:Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
:Owner/Administrator, zigg.com
I'm talking about CNAME records, not IN A records.
BTW, assigning multiple A records to a single domain does not break spec
at all. in A round robins entail other issues but none are related
to the problem of 'domain.com' vs 'host.domain.com'.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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