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Re: ingress filtering


From: John Fraizer <John.Fraizer () EnterZone Net>
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:44:16 -0400

At 08:09 AM 5/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
Actually it has nothing to do with WINS.  If all the ISP's would implement
solid in-addr.arpa reverse mappings, this would go away.  Microsoft's DNS
resolver has been extended, when DNS lookups fail, to do a reverse NETBIOS
query against the target machine so it can use its name when displaying
stuff via NBTSTAT, etc.  It was designed this way, before the Internet
became popular.

The reverse on the name being queried works just fine:

[OverKill]:/# nslookup www.stefcam.com
Server:  NS1.ENTERZONE.NET
Address:  209.41.244.5

Name:    STEFCAM.COM
Address:  209.41.244.238
Aliases:  www.stefcam.com

[OverKill]:/# nslookup 209.41.244.238
Server:  NS1.ENTERZONE.NET
Address:  209.41.244.5

Name:    StefCAM.Com
Address:  209.41.244.238




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