Peter Eisentraut  wrote:
> On mån, 2010-08-09 at 13:56 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut  wrote:
 
>>> is reverse looked up, which results in a host name.
>>
>> Some IP addresses have several host names, including in reverse
>> lookup; how is that handled?
> 
> This is not possible,
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup#Multiple_pointer_records
 
> or at least the C library APIs don't expose it.
 
That may explain the prevalence of bugs in code dealing with it.
 
-Kevin

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