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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!craig
- From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
- Subject: Re: Why not automatically do reverse domains?
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 23:46:59 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
-
- >Why doesn't BIND automatically generate a PTR record for every A
- >record it sees? All the nameserver tools I've seen perform that
- >function, why doesn't BIND? Is there some subtlety that doesn't meet
- >my eye?
-
- Multiple names for IP numbers. Which reverse name lookup should it use?
- (Mind you, not that many machines couldn't use an A and a CNAME record
- rather than 2 A addresses)
-
- Craig
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- University of Western Australia Dept of Education (afternoon)
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