Dickson, Brian <bdick...@verisign.com> wrote:
>
> However, there is another UGLY, EVIL way that might achieve what you're
> thinking of:
>
> Instead of delegating to omniscient AS112 servers, what about doing a
> DNAME to a specific target "foo" (replace "foo" with what you will) in the
> DNS tree?

Like this?

We have had (afaik) one interop problem with this setup: there was a mail
server on a network with DNAMEd reverse DNS, and some recipient sites
objected to this.

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-vjs340.03-P1 <<>> @authdns0.csx.cam.ac.uk -x 128.232.255.255
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 47436
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;255.255.232.128.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
255.232.128.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN      DNAME   
255.232.128.in-addr.arpa.cam.ac.uk.
255.255.232.128.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN  CNAME   
255.255.232.128.in-addr.arpa.cam.ac.uk.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
in-addr.arpa.cam.ac.uk. 14400   IN      SOA     authdns0.csx.cam.ac.uk. 
hostmaster.ucs.cam.ac.uk. 1361480354 14400 3600 604800 14400

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:630:212:8::d:a0#53(2001:630:212:8::d:a0)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 26 00:25:59 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 187

Tony.
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