[Gllug] CNAME in in-addr.arpa ????

[Xander D Harkness]

Alain Williams wrote:

>If I go:
>	host 194.201.169.65
>I get:
>	65.169.201.194.in-addr.arpa is an alias for 65.64.169.201.194.in-addr.arpa.
>	65.64.169.201.194.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mailhost.pme.co.uk.
>
>What is going on here ? How can one IP address be an alias for another (in DNS at any rate) ???
>
>And:
>	host mailhost.pme.co.uk
>gives:
>	mailhost.pme.co.uk has address 194.201.169.65
>
>
>I have never seen this before.
>
>  
>
Someone has not copied and pasted correctly when creating their zone 
file :-)

65.64.169.201.194.in-addr.arpa.

When creating 65 they forgot to delete 64.  They should have scripted it :-)

I would say that it is a munged zone file.

Cheers
Xander



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