Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Shane" == Shane Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Shane> Okay, I'll bite.  What does it mean to have a PTR record in
    Shane> anything other than the in-addr.arpa tree?

It just means there's a PTR record in a zone outside the in-addr.arpa
tree. Whether that has any significance or not depends on whether
something knows to look for that PTR record. For instance a server
might come across it by following a CNAME when resolving a query. This
is how some folk implement simplified RFC2317 style reverse lookups.
Take a look at 6.242.6.62.in-addr.arpa for example.