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- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!andy
- From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
- Subject: SOA and root server question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.172225.11113@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
- Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:22:25 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- We have some vendor-supplied equipment here which is hard-coded for
- an IP address that belongs to control data (the dreaded 192.9.200.x)
- since they had no understanding of how IP connectivity works and
- used the Sun default range. Unfortunately, this equipment can not
- be changed to use our correct IP address.
-
- If we have reverse pointers for the wrong IP address and never need
- connectivity to the real 192.9.200.x, do we need to worry about this
- external to our company as we join the internet? I would guess that
- the root servers would not acknolwedge that our domain owns that IP
- space in in-addr.arpa and therefore we'd never get external queries
- about this hardware. (Also, those machines will never ever talk to
- the internet.)
-
- If more info is needed, I'll try to reply to mail.
-
- -Andy
-
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- Andrew Finkenstadt, Vista-Chrome, Inc., Homes & Land Publishing Corporation
- GEnie Unix RoundTable Manager, andy@vistachrome.com, andy@genie.geis.com.
-
- "[The author] neither accidentally nor intentionally omits or includes
- anything that could support a preconceived thesis." - C&EN 21-DEC-92 p.72
-