why should a program in general care what the difference between a domain and an ip address is? it's pretty easy to tell if you really need to know, which isn't often.
- erik On Wed Oct 18 15:57:11 EDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >if one knew more about DNS, maybe the .in-addr.arpa thing > >would be obvious... > > that's what's the subject of DNS lookups to do a `reverse lookup'. > it's really an ordinary lookup of specially-constructed names in > a domain reserved for them. that's the DNS itself, nothing to do with Plan 9. > dnsquery is mainly used interactively. i'm not sure you really want to do it > inside ndb/dns itself, because it catches cases where client programs > are confused (or have been confused) between domain names and IP addresses.
