Reverse lookup from Internet only worked when using dig +trace option

Barry Margolin barry.margolin at level3.com
Mon Sep 29 19:18:32 UTC 2003


In article <bl9u4h$31ht$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Villy Kruse <nobody at eu.uu.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:48:18 GMT,
>    Barry Margolin <barry.margolin at level3.com> wrote:
>
>
>>In article <bk82ge$2826$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>>>	Named does *not* follow CNAMEs when looking up addresses
>>>	of namesevers.
>>
>>Isn't that a violation of the "be liberal in what you accept" principle?
>
>You should also cite the second half of that: "be strict in what you send".

We don't have control over the system sending out the CNAMEs, so that part
is irrelevant.

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