reverse look-up oddity

Cricket Liu cricket at nxdomain.com
Fri Jul 20 16:56:53 UTC 2001


> The entries in the .rev file are not double-domain'd, they have the
> wrong domain. Besides, problem 6 makes no mention of the .rev file.
> Actually, there's surprisingly little mention of the .rev file. 

That would be 1) because the problem of leaving a trailing
dot off of the end of a domain name affects both forward-
and reverse-mapping zones and 2) because appending 
".rev" is apparently your site's convention for naming zone 
data files for reverse-mapping zones, not a standard term.

cricket



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