Dickson, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> While mail servers doing PTR look-up having problems is a potential
> concern, keep in mind that AS112 is meant to be used for "local"-ish
> zones, like 10.in-addr.arpa.

Right. I probably should have said more clearly that it works pretty well
if that is the worst interop problem.

I just remembered another problem, that many unices have antediluvian stub
resolvers that write to syslog when they see a DNAME record, e.g.

gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "42.143.232.128.in-addr.arpa IN PTR", got type 
"39"

Apart from logging, the code ignores the DNAME record and happily
processes the synthesized CNAME record, so it is mostly a benign bug apart
from the annoying noise in the logs. If AS112 were to use DNAME this is
likely to become a tiresome FAQ.

Tony.
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