Classless inaddr draft
Hank Nussbacher <HANK@taunivm.tau.ac.il> Thu, 28 November 1996 10:31 UTC
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:28:10 -0000
From: Hank Nussbacher <HANK@taunivm.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Classless inaddr draft
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>INTERNET-DRAFT Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation November 1996 > Unfortunately, some old beta releases of the popular DNS name server > implementation BIND 4.9.3 had a bug which caused problems if a CNAME > record was encountered when a reverse lookup was made. The beta > releases involved have since been obsoleted, and this issue is > resolved in the released code. Some software manufacturers have > included the defective beta code in their product. In the few cases > we know of, patches from the manufacturers are available or planned > to replace the obsolete beta code involved. Since this might end up as a BCP, perhaps it would be good to have a section on those major systems that do not conform to this standard such as Netscape Proxy server 2.0, AIX 4.2, Microsoft NT DNS server 4.0, etc. Show also what the typical error message would be when a server encounters this type of classless inaddr. Hank Nussbacher
- Classless inaddr draft Hank Nussbacher