Re: in-addr.arpa?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:04:34 +0200, Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>  said:
> Why would 216.136.44.104 do something like this?
>   14 ip104.44.136.216.in-addr.arpa (216.136.44.104) [AS 4323] 404 msec 400 
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      104.44.136.216.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
104.44.136.216.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN PTR  ip104.44.136.216.in-addr.arpa.

;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      44.136.216.in-addr.arpa, type = SOA, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
44.136.216.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN SOA  ns1.inc.net. hostmaster.inc.net. (

Umm.. because hostmaster () inc net was feeling lazy? ;)

It isn't the first time I've seen people do this.  However,
usually they manage to have the PTR point at something that itself
has an A record that matches.  Alas, there isn't an entry:

ip104.44.136.216.in-addr.arpa. IN A 216.136.44.104

I suppose given the sorry state of the REST of the PTR map, we should
be glad that at least they acknowledged that they own the IP, and
that it didn't give NXDOMAIN on the PTR ;)

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech