Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:48:39 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Victor Bondarenko <vpb@indite.org> Cc: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Subject: Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space Message-ID: <20030328011839.GH72254@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030327171013.A42884@mail.telestream.com> References: <20030327214336.GE645@comp4.ici.net> <20030327185204.GA645@comp4.ici.net> <20030327135506.A60255-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> <20030327183154.GA622@comp4.ici.net> <20030327103827.A8705@mail.telestream.com> <20030327185204.GA645@comp4.ici.net> <20030327183154.GA622@comp4.ici.net> <20030327214336.GE645@comp4.ici.net> <20030328005034.GA72254@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030327171013.A42884@mail.telestream.com>
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On Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 17:10:13 -0800, Victor Bondarenko wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:20:34AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>> zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
>>> type slave;
>>> file "s/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak";
>>> masters {
>>> 192.168.1.1;
>>> };
>>> };
>>
>> This is a slave entry. It would be more interesting to see what the
>> master config looks like. Anyway, this address is in an RFC 1918
>> non-routable address range. That means it's not unique, and it's
>> completely meaningless on the global Internet. In fact, I have that
>> address here :-)
>>
>
> When I see a non-routable IP on a mailing list, I usually assume that
> whoever is asking the question doesn't want to tell what the real IP
> address is (although why I'm not exactly sure.)
That's a possibility, but it somewhat obfuscates the story here.
Anyway, it doesn't make any sense to ask your ISP to provide a reverse
lookup for an RFC 1918 address.
Greg
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