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

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Sep 28 17:39:02 EDT 2023


On 2023-09-28 18:57, gah4 wrote:
> On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 7:20:55 AM UTC-7, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
>> One bit of ARPANET still exists today. The weird reverse DNS lookups on
>> IP addresses are done within the arpa.net domain. :-)
>>
>> Gromit:/Users/johnny.billquist> nslookup -query=ptr 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa.net
>> Server: 195.186.1.111
>> Address: 195.186.1.111#53
>>
>> Non-authoritative answer:
>> 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa.net name = localhost.
> 
> All the ones I have are in-addr.arpa.   No .net on them.

You are right. I don't know where I got the ".net" from, and I'm 
surprised it worked...

   Johnny




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