Re: A question because nslookup....

[Jason Opperisano <opie_(_at_)_817west_(_dot_)_com>]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 09:16, van Helsing wrote:
> Why does nslookup write the IPs backward?
> I never noticed that before but it looks a littlebit non-logical.
> 
> 
> vh

Read section 3.5 of RFC 1035:

        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1035.txt

if you're actually interested in understanding DNS, i (and probably the
rest of the world) highly recommend the cricket book, "DNS and BIND"
from o'reilly (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns4/).

-j

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