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From: feoh@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Patti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: nameserver resolution by adress (HELP!!!)
Message-ID: <1992Sep10.215107.26211@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 92 21:51:07 GMT
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Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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We have a nameserver for a subdomain, and the nameserver one level
above us knows enough about us to be able to correctly resolve names,
but not addresses.  (i.e. the server above us has an NS record with
our nameserver listed to resolve all names with our domain postfix).
Does anyone happen to know the syntax necessary to make the 
nameserver above us send ADDRESS requests to our nameserver as well?
(A gethostbyname on a foreign host is successful, but then taking
that addr and trying to gethostbyaddr is NOT successful.)

Posting here is cool, or if you feel like it, please reply to:
bild@ncm.interlan.com

Thanks bunches...
bild
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