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Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Thu, 10 May 2001 10:36 UTC

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> Okay, I'll bite.  What does it mean to have a PTR record in anything
> other than the in-addr.arpa tree?  While in some ways all domains are

See RFC 1101 for examples of PTR RRs in "forward" name space.

> equal, can't we at least say that some domains are more equal than
> others?  :P

"EU" comes to mind ...

-Peter

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