On Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:38:28 +0200 (EET) Andres Bauman wrote:

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"

There has been a beta release of bind 4.9.3 which had this problem. That bind version has been superceded by newer beta versions, which in turn are obsoleted by 4.9.3-REL (-P1). Earlier versions of bind do not have this problem; later versions don't have it either as explained above. It is just some beta-versions that used to have this problem Since FreeBSD uses shared libraries, I think it is easy to replace the obsolete beta code with a more recent resolver. Does this solve your problem? Geert Jan