From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 13 8:48:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C70F14F2D for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:47:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA89842; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37B43D60.56FF6F32@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:44:32 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0811 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Finch Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (2) hey References: <199908122308.TAA88002@whizzo.transsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Finch wrote: > > Doug wrote: > >Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > >>[lost attribution] > >>> > >>> That IS a violation of the standard, since A records are not valid > >>> for hosts in in-addr.arpa. > >> > >> And next I suppose you'll tell me that PTR records are not valid > >> outsize of the IN-ADDR.ARPA portion of the DNS namespace? > > > > Given how PTR RR's are defined, I'd have to say, ayyup. > > I suggest you read RFC 2317 I'd suggest you read what I actually wrote. :) Nothing in either RFC that you quoted, or any of your examples contradicted my actual point, which was that PTR records are not valid outside of in-addr.arpa name space. If you believe they are, give valid working examples and explain their meaning, since there currently is not a definition for their use outside of in-addr.arpa. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message