* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> 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 :)
It's OK. I should've said "because that's How Things Are[tm]". ;)
Dima
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