Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!nuug!ifi!enag From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: HINFO record consistency Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 90 22:58:43 GMT References: <1990Nov27.234016.21510@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1990Nov28.025352.28252@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: hild.ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 28 Nov 90 02:53:52 GMT Originator: enag@hild Correction to previous posting. In article <1990Nov28.025352.28252@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes: In the same vein, host 0 in the in-addr.arpa files returns the name of the subnet, e.g., 0.5.174.128.in-addr.arpa returns uiuc-dcl-net.uiuc.edu. The idea is to roll information typically found outside the DNS, /etc/networks for example, into it. Paul, I may have overlooked something. If you do this with the HINFO RR, you're wrong. If you do it with the PTR RR, you're in accordance with RFC 1101 DNS Encoding of Network Names and Other Types. If you haven't read it, please do. It specifies exactly what you're trying to accomplish. -- [Erik Naggum] Snail: Naggum Software / BOX 1570 VIKA / 0118 OSLO / NORWAY Mail: , My opinions. Wail: +47-2-836-863 --