Need help explaining in-addr.arpa to Limelight

Mon Oct 23 22:48:13 UTC 2006

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:03:22PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	I seem to be having a problem. Limelight has SWIP'd 
> 69.28.185.0/24 to me, and I asked for IN-ADDR.ARPA control.
> I recently went to check and it seemed not to be working
> right. I sent them an email around 11p Eastern Sunday nite
> asking it to be fixed. I even included a reference to a
> web page on how to delegate in-addr.arpa.  I received the
> following back :
> 
> "This is done, but you will need to rename the zone on your
> end to: tboh.185.28.69.in-addr.arpa."
> 
> 	Is there someone out there that might be able
> to help me explain this to the techs there. That you
> can't "subdomain" an in-addr.arpa like you do a domain
> name?
> 
> 		Thanks, Tuc/TBOH

No, because in fact you can.  There is nothing magic about an
in-addr.arpa domain.

-- 
Joe Yao
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