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Re: Best practice for reverse DNS records

From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:20:18 -0500

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:18:01 -0500, Richard H Gadsden said:

For every other IP address in our Class B, we publish a generic PTR
record, for example y.x.23.128.in-addr.arpa -> 128-23-x-y.musc.edu.


This of course won't scale to the IPv6 world unless you have a DNS
server that's able to generate synthetic responses on the fly...

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