Problems with in-addr.arpa...

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:17:51PM -0400, Lary Holland wrote:
> 
> Actually I have seen that if you have an ORIGIN keyword at the top of the
> records of the type:
> 
> ORIGIN salk;dfjaksdf.com or
> ORIGIN in-addr.arpa-file
> 
> it will append the origin to the host name on an nslookup.
> 
> Lary Holland
> President/CEO
> "Visit http://www.fli-online.com. Why crawl online, when you can
> fli-online?"

This is quite true.  However, the file started out with an origin:
"16.172.in-addr.arpa".  ISTM that it can get confusing if you then make
it something quite different.

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