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From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
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Subject: Re: general question re: PTR records. 
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Mitch Collinsworth wrote:

> > Is it just a really bad idea?
>  
> It's an interesting idea, but it assumes a picture of the world that
> doesn't correspond with actual reality.

The expression "actual reality" should be read as "the BIND way
of doing things".  There are alternative DNS implementations
that work just the way the original poster wanted, albeit with
quite different syntax.  "All the world's not named," to steal a
well-known proposition.


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