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Re: classless delegation [Re: IP address fee??]


From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles () skynet be>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:27:24 +0200


At 1:41 PM +0200 2002/09/09, Peter van Dijk wrote:

 PTR is not special to nameserver software in any way. If it can handle
 an A record that is the name of the domain, it can handle a PTR.

Maybe not the nameserver software you've seen. Moreover, the real problem is not the nameserver software, but all the other incredibly broken applications out there that can't handle PTR co-existing with SOA & NS RRs.

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