[afnog] Is this acceptable?
ALAIN PATRICK AINA
aalain at trstech.net
Fri Jul 16 10:09:04 EAT 2004
> > > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > > 186.89.82.166.in-addr.arpa. 255 IN PTR AGM.
> > >
> > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > > 89.82.166.in-addr.arpa. 255 IN NS ns.vnet.net.
> > > 89.82.166.in-addr.arpa. 255 IN NS ns2.vnet.net.
> >
> > It's certainly not an existing FQDN, though it's syntactically
> > valid, so it depends what you define as acceptable.
>
> I thought acceptable would be something akin to what is in RFC2317.
> An example is
> 193 PTR host1.C.domain.
>
> As you stated it isnot a FQDN.
RFC 1034 and 1035 define PTR 's RDATA as a "domain name" and simple data. It
is only required that RDATA be a Canonical name, not an alias.
"AGM." is a complete domain name.
RFC 2317 just recommended ways to do Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation
mainly subdomains of /24
--alain
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