Reverse lookups not working when Internet connection failed.

Fred Morris m3047 at m3047.net
Mon Nov 7 16:51:01 UTC 2022


"Problems"...

On Sun, 6 Nov 2022, Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote:
> On 11/6/22 6:39 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>>  alternatively they can choose to 0/28.66.136.193.in-addr.arpa. or
>>  0-15.66.136.193.in-addr.arpa.  instead of 0-28.66.136.193.in-addr.arpa.
>
> N.B. I've had some problems with the forward slash character "/" in domain 
> names multiple times in the past.  I'd stick with the hyphen "-" for 
> compatibility.

I've had problems with web browsers with "non-hostname" characters. I 
don't consider web browsers or their ilk the likely use case for resources 
under in-addr.arpa. There are some things I would avoid as a courtesy to 
others if I was so inclined: escape, completion and wildcard characters in 
shells and SQL implementations...

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Fred Morris



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