Re: [EXIM] Possible bug in hosts_lookup_nets ?

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Author: Richard Welty
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: John Horne, exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Possible bug in hosts_lookup_nets ?
At 09:42 AM 8/7/98 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Richard Welty wrote:


>> but ip address mappings back to domain names (the ptr records) are
>> one to one.


>I believe there is nothing in the DNS specifications requiring this,
>though I don't think there are many existing one-to-many PTR records
>actually in existence.


as a practical matter, most software goes out to lunch if it gets more than
one PTR record back from a query, which is why nobody ever does it.

richard

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Richard Welty
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