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From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Special way to query DNS?
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Date: 25 Jul 90 21:44:20 GMT
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In article <9007250151.AA22673@cs.brown.edu> jb@CS.BROWN.EDU (Jim Bloom) writes:
>I have threatened to remove the support for inverse queries from BIND.
>There are lots of bugs in the handling of inverse queries since they
>haven't been used since in-addr.arpa was created.  Actually, until recently
>nslookup used them until I told the author that incorrect answers were
>being returned for 127.0.0.1 (loopback interface on BSD based systems)
>when the server handled multiple zones.
>
>				Jim

Nslookup also barfs if the inverse query fails.

Is this new version of nslookup available yet?  I have a fairly recent
version and it still appears to do inverse queries.
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