Is this correct behaviour?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <199908090659.MAA22771 at manohari.india.hp.com>,
Anand S Medikeri  <anandsm at manohari.india.hp.com> wrote:
> Sorry for bothering again.  
>
> As far I know  in-addr.arpa  domain maps IP addresses to hostnames.  If
> my   understanding   is  true  then  it  dosen't  make  sense  to  load
> 6.5.4.3.2.in-addr.arpa RR since a host cannot have 1.2.2.3.4.5.6 as its
> IP address.  And if it takes it to be CIDR than why is it not ture with
> A RR which when has data portion as  1.2.2.3.4.5.6  says not a valid IP
> addr.

in-addr.arpa entries that don't look like they make sense could be
reasonable if you're using RFC 2317's mechanism for classless reverse DNS
delegation.  As far as BIND is concerned they're just arbitrary strings.

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