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

[Dan Cross]

In article <e1bcd5f3-807f-46bc-bfcb-f7a26e669a03n at googlegroups.com>,
gah4  <gah4 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>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.

The correct domain for reverse DNS lookup is in-addr.arpa.  It
looks like the `arpa.net` is just a normal domain (if a
surprising one).

	- Dan C.