domain IN-ARPA.ADDR

Steven J. Sobol sjsobol at nacs.net
Tue Mar 16 15:20:51 UTC 1999


> I was trying to find a way to check whether an IP address is used by some
> host without actually probing it. DNS sounds like a good way to go, but
> I'v heard that domain "IN-ARPA.ADDR" is not well maintained and updated.
> 
> Is that true? If so, how un-dependable it could be?

Very. Some ISP's don't maintain rDNS at all.


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