greywolf@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com writes:
> Now, WHY are inverse queries not allowed by default?  Some sort of
> security hole?  I mean, aren't inverse queries kind of necessary?

No. They are obsolete.

> I certainly want to find out who the hell 223.255.254.254 is if they're
> trying to log on to my machine!

Thats not an inverse query. Thats a forward query for the PTR record
for 254.254.255.223.in-addr.arpa.

> It's gonna take a LONG time for the rest of the world to catch up to
> that change.

Nope. There is exactly one program on earth that uses inverse queries
-- SunOS nslookup, on startup.

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