From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 19:27:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA8737B404 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:27:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (malkav.snowmoon.com [209.23.60.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDA3F43F3F for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 68956 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2003 03:27:04 -0000 Received: from alb-24-29-84-153.nycap.rr.com (HELO snowmoon.com) (24.29.84.153) by 10.5.1.62 with SMTP; 29 Mar 2003 03:27:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:53:28 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey From: Jaime In-Reply-To: <20030328005034.GA72254@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 03:27:13 -0000 On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 07:50 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Is that easier than "nslookup 1.2.3.4"? Oops! I forgot that nslookup has a command line more. I usually use it when I want an interactive mode. :) > Unfortunately, most of it was wrong :-( To be fair, the question was lacking critical background data. In addition, its a broad topic and people may have assumed that he knew the significance of the IP address that he mentioned (which is part of the default named.conf and meant only as an example). Heck, after fixing DNS issues on a backbone ISP for 8 months, I forgot how complex DNS issues seem to the average Joe. Jaime