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Re: rDNS naming conventions (was: Re: SORBS Contact)

  • From: Nicholas Suan
  • Date: Thu Aug 10 16:42:56 2006
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On 8/10/06, Steven Champeon <[email protected]> wrote: 

on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:55:37PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> There's at least one vietnamese ISP that has / had till recently set
> "localhost" as rDNS for all their IPs.

IIRC, that was fpt.vn; they replaced 'localhost' with the incredibly
useful:


There seem to be a couple in the area that do it:

As of 5 minutes ago:

% dig +short -x 203.160.1.3 -x 203.160.1.35
localhost.
localhost.

inetnum:      203.160.0.0 - 203.160.1.255
netname:      VNPT-VNNIC-VN
country:      VN