Classless in-addr.arpa delegation

7 Feb 1996

      Hi

There is at least one operating system, where this method described in
draft-degroot-classless-inaddr-00.txt, and supposed by RIPE, does not
work.  It is FreeBSD. Their resolver libarary cannot handle CNAME answers
for PTR queries. In their case you just see on console something like: 

Feb  7 16:53:00 cache traceroute: gethostby*.gethostanswer: asked for 
"177.96.40.193.in-addr.arpa", got "177.128.96.40.193.in-addr.arpa"

Regards,
	ANdres

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