Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 18:33:11 +0100 (MET) From: Piero Serini <piero@IBE.NET> To: Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers' List) Subject: Classless in-addr.arpa delegation (fwd) Message-ID: <199602071733.SAA18185@devel-1.ibe.net>
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Hello. This e-mail came from the mailing list for local registries in Europe. I thought you would find it interesting. Quoting from Andres Bauman: > From owner-local-ir@ripe.net Wed Feb 7 18:27 MET 1996 > Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:38:28 +0200 (EET) > From: Andres Bauman <andresb@uninet.ee> > X-Sender: andresb@horos.kbfi.ee > To: local-ir@ripe.net > Subject: Classless in-addr.arpa delegation > Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960207173045.24639I-100000@horos.kbfi.ee> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Length: 713 > > Hi > > There is at least one operating system, where this method described in > draft-degroot-classless-inaddr-00.txt, and supposed by RIPE, does not > work. It is FreeBSD. Their resolver libarary cannot handle CNAME answers > for PTR queries. In their case you just see on console something like: > > Feb 7 16:53:00 cache traceroute: gethostby*.gethostanswer: asked for > "177.96.40.193.in-addr.arpa", got "177.128.96.40.193.in-addr.arpa" > > > Regards, > ANdres > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Andres Bauman | Internet: andresb@uninet.ee > AS Nosper Ltd. | Phone: +372 6308858 > Ravala pst. 10 | Fax: +372 6317984 > EE0001, Tallinn, Estonia | > Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.13 1996/01/10 14:18:23 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Panzeri, 15 <Piero@IBENet.IT> I 20123 Milano - ITALY
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