From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] csipinfo
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:59:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <584ff5f337473765a285df6a3862edb0@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a0c239b4855c0dcf4dc40e67bf4236a@terzarima.net>
why should a program in general care what the difference between a domain and an ip address is?
it's pretty easy to tell if you really need to know, which isn't often.
- erik
On Wed Oct 18 15:57:11 EDT 2006, forsyth@terzarima.net wrote:
> >if one knew more about DNS, maybe the .in-addr.arpa thing
> >would be obvious...
>
> that's what's the subject of DNS lookups to do a `reverse lookup'.
> it's really an ordinary lookup of specially-constructed names in
> a domain reserved for them. that's the DNS itself, nothing to do with Plan 9.
> dnsquery is mainly used interactively. i'm not sure you really want to do it
> inside ndb/dns itself, because it catches cases where client programs
> are confused (or have been confused) between domain names and IP addresses.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-18 19:59 UTC|newest]
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2006-10-18 18:44 ` Joel “chesky” Salomon
2006-10-18 19:14 ` rog
2006-10-18 19:26 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-18 19:38 ` Joel “chesky” Salomon
2006-10-18 19:57 ` C H Forsyth
2006-10-18 23:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-19 8:29 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-18 20:17 ` Joel “chesky” Salomon
2006-10-18 21:29 ` geoff
2006-10-18 19:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-18 19:59 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-10-18 20:15 ` rog
2006-10-18 19:30 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-18 3:10 Joel “chesky” Salomon
2006-10-18 3:36 ` geoff
2006-10-18 5:20 ` Joel “chesky” Salomon
2006-10-18 5:37 ` geoff
2006-10-18 5:53 ` Joel “chesky” Salomon
2006-10-18 12:38 ` Joel “chesky” Salomon
2006-10-18 15:32 ` Russ Cox
2006-10-18 16:43 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-18 16:59 ` rog
2006-10-18 20:38 ` andrey mirtchovski
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