At 8:29 PM -0500 11/12/01, Stefan Jeglinski  imposed structure on a 
stream of electrons, yielding:
>>>There doesn't appear to BE a "spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com ".
>>>
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>No records were found.
>>
>>That may not be not what it appears to be...
>>
>>Joe Jared (who runs Osirusoft) has a very odd view of how to 
>>structure his DNS zones, so you pretty much have to hit an 
>>authority with a query in the zone to get a rational response.
>
>I've been wondering about this all damn day. Bill, although it's a 
>little off-topic, can you explain this in more detail? Forgetting 
>SIMS for a moment, and pretending that the extent of my DNS world is 
>my caching nameserver, why do I get only a question response to 
>spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com, but a question and also an answer to 
>reverse_ip.spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com?


My understanding is that all of the Osirusoft zones are in fact a 
single zone, with the sub-zones not having their own SOA's. In other 
words, there is no A record for 248.217.80.64 in the zone 
spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com, but there is a record for 
248.217.80.64.spamhaus in the zone relays.osirusoft.com.

This is a VERY odd way to do things.


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Bill Cole                                  
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