Reverse lookups not working when Internet connection failed.

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Mon Nov 7 11:11:26 UTC 2022


>On 11/6/22 11:12 AM, Carl Byington via bind-users wrote:
>>or use $clientname.66.136.193.in-addr.arpa. as the intermediate zone 
>>which has a slight advantage when the same client has multiple 
>>disjoint parts of the same /24.

On 06.11.22 20:08, Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote:
>I find that $CLIENTNAME or some other stand in for the client is a 
>potential for information lek.

I agree, the client may want to stay private.

>There is nothing inherent in the CNAME to non-identifying RNAMEs that 
>leaks any client identifying information.
>
>Conversely the client is in charge of what information they put in the 
>sub-zone, so it's not the ISP leaking client identifying information.


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