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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 1997 10:09:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: results by gethostby*.gethostanswer
Message-ID:  <Pine.UW2.3.95.970305100659.24033I-100000@cedb>
In-Reply-To: <199703050820.AAA25616@wiley.csusb.edu>

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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, William Wong wrote:
> Has anybody seen something like this before?
> 
>   http: gethostby*.gethostanswer: asked for "102.63.32.128.in-addr.arpa", got
>   "102.0.63.32.128.in-addr.arpa"

It's reverse DNS on a subnet, a /25 based on the target address.

See draft-ietf-cidrd-classless-inaddr-01.txt

Dan
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