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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:07:48 -0600 (CST)
From:      Andrew Smith <awsmith@rip.ops.neosoft.com>
To:        bind-users@vix.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Classless DNS incompat?
Message-ID:  <199604042207.QAA18118@rip.ops.neosoft.com>

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Perhaps not the best place for this question....

Nameserver:	ns.neo.net (198.64.6.1/206.109.1.1)
		FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE
		BIND 4.9.3 BETA26

FTP Server:	www.neosoft.com (206.109.1.6)
		FreeBSD 2.1-960102

	I just started to change a couple of my in-addrs to
the cidrd-classless-inaddr draft specs, but I have noticed
that our FreeBSD WWW/FTP server running wu-ftpd 2.4 is
refusing customers who are in the in-addr range due to
a mismatch in the A record returned from gethostbyname()
and the actual PTR pointed to by the CNAME from gethostbyaddr().
For example, monster.t1.com resolves to 206.109.155.18,
but 206.109.155.18 resolves to a CNAME 206.109.155.0.18,
which then resolves to monster.t1.com. The resolver seems
to not like this, returns an error, and wu-ftpd denies
access.

	Questions:	Is this a bug in the FreeBSD resolver?

			Do most O/S's resolvers function like this?

			Am I implimenting the draft method incorrectly
			to get responses like this?

			Does this bode ill for common use of
			this draft practice? Is this a known
			problem that many others are experiencing?
 
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