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From: gwh@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Graham Hudspith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Does anyone use RFC1101 ??
Message-ID: <14170@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
Date: 31 Jan 91 11:15:59 GMT
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Thanks to all those people who have mailed me the answer. It shows that
trying to develop TCP/IP applications without access to The Internet
can be like trying to learn to speak French only from a book !!

The answer, for the interested among you, was that I cannot use
RFC1101 to define a DNS entry for a network called "br-ether.",
but I can do for a network called "br-ether.inmos.co.uk."

Example
=======

::::::::::::::
/etc/named.zone
::::::::::::::
inmos.co.uk.    IN      SOA     eagle.inmos.co.uk. gwh.inmos.co.uk. (
							    1.0010
							    3600
							    300
							    360000
							    3600   )
;
eagle           IN      A       138.198.35.7
IN      HINFO   Sun-4/60        UNIX
;
trout           IN      A       138.198.35.204
IN      HINFO   NCD             X-Terminal
;
br-ether        PTR     0.0.198.138.IN-ADDR.ARPA.

rather than

br-ether.       PTR     0.0.198.138.IN-ADDR.ARPA.

Close, but no cigar!

Now getnetbyname ("br-ether") returns:

    name = br-ether.inmos.co.uk
    addrtype = 2
    net = 138.198.0.0

Graham Hudspith.
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