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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!mips!a2i!dhesi
- From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi)
- Subject: how decentralized is in-addr.arpa?
- Message-ID: <BsyHwp.HpB@rahul.net>
- Sender: news@rahul.net (Usenet News)
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- Organization: a2i network
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:31:36 GMT
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- I understand the benefits of a hierarchical domain naming scheme,
- which allows authority for many small domains to be distributed.
-
- However, I do not understand how reverse address mapping is
- decentralized. Does the NIC itself maintain an entry for every class B
- and class C network pointing to the appropriate nameservers? There
- must be many more entries in *.in-addr.arpa than there are in
- *.{com,edu,gov,net,org}.
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- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
- also: dhesi@cirrus.com
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