wildcard reverse lookups?

[Karl Auer]

Hi there.

Due to a programming error (IMHO) we have a PTR entry in a reverse zone
that points to a wildcard. Try "dig -x 129.132.73.148" to see it.

Now I reckon this is a Bad Thing. I reckon reverse lookups should
resolve to single real names. With this entry, no matter what name
someone uses, if they have the address 129.132.73.148, their address
will not resolve back to their name. I can see no use for this entry,
except to confuse machines that don't like asterisks in their DNS diet.

Does anyone else have an opinion on this?

Regards, K.

PS: BIND loads the entry with a warning about a "bad name", Nominum's
ANS accepts it without comment.

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Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)                   +61-2-64957160 (h)
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