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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:37:12 -0500
From:      "Timothy R. Platt" <tplatt@nethampton.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Systalk] localhost.org (fwd)
Message-ID:  <v04210100b45b8092a191@[24.188.227.12]>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911181258190.67369-100000@s01.arpa-canada.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911181258190.67369-100000@s01.arpa-canada.net>

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>Another thing you (the original poster) could do, is if you want your
>machine to work on the net like domain.com, You could simply name the
>machine something.domain.com, CNAME domain.com to it, and reverse the
>IP address to domain.com. This will do the trick to having the machine
>show up on the internet (IRC, etc) as domain.com, while leaving your
>machine with a "hostname" so your domain would be '.com' or in your
>case, '.org' -Matt
>

arpa should reflect FQDN, not a CNAME.  If you do this you create 
problems for yourself when you contact other systems; for example 
systems with tcpd compiled -DPARANOID.

It will work for nameservice purposes, but you won't be able to 
connect to my system, at least :)

tim



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