On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:57:13AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Curiosity just bit me in the butt. Where does the .in-addr.arpa come > > from? > > From the way bind works. See e.g. O'Reilly's "DNS and Bind".
Well, er, it's not there because of the way BIND works. Rather, BIND works that way because it is conforming to the standards. See STD13, section 5.2.1 and RFC1035, section 3.5 for some discussion of the IN-ADDR.ARPA domain. Sorry to be pedantic :) -- Nathan Norman - Micromuse Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gil-galad was an Elven-king. | The Fellowship Of him the harpers sadly sing: | of the last whose realm was fair and free | the Ring between the Mountains and the Sea. | J.R.R. Tolkien
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