[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

[gah4]

On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 11:01:22 AM UTC-7, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-09-28 at 09:57 -0700, gah4 wrote: 

(snip)

> > All the ones I have are in-addr.arpa.   No .net on them.

> $ nslookup -query=ptr 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa.net 
> net.c:537: probing sendmsg() with IPV6_TCLASS=b8 failed: Network is 
> unreachable 
> Server: 192.168.2.254 
> Address: 192.168.2.254#53
> Non-authoritative answer: 
> 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa.net name = localhost.
> Not here it is :) 

But it gives the wrong answer!

> 8.8.8.8
Server:		127.0.0.1
Address:	127.0.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa	name = dns.google.


In my few tries, the in-addr.arpa.net always returns localhost.

in-addr.arpa, the one it has been for years, decades, returns
the right answer.