Reverse lookup on a subnet
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sat Dec 20 05:00:25 UTC 2003
In article <brvho8$28lb$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Stein Oddvar Rasmussen <stor at online.no> wrote:
> bill wrote:
> >>Um. Okay. What happens if I do not use reverse lookup at all?
> >
> > Well, if its your prefix and you don't publish the data,
> > then not only do YOU "not use reverse lookup at all",
> > NO one else on the Internet will be able to do a reverse
> > lookup on your delegated address space.
>
> Well, yes. Obviously. That I figured out on my own. What else? Will I
> get arrested by the DNS-police? Will my domain-names stop working? Will
> the internet masters shut me down?
Half the sites on the Internet don't have their reverse DNS set up, so
you'd be pretty normal.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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