[ale] Single IP Reverse DNS?

[Robert L. Harris]

I just talked to a diff tech.  The other guy was a bit screwed up.
They allocate it like a 255.255.255.255 but it's using a .192 subnet.


Thus spake scott thomason (scott at industrial-linux.org):

> Without having tried it, I can't see how that would work. You're
> essentially saying there is no network; only one host and no IP for
> the network itself or a broadcast address. I would have guessed it
> couldn't work. Are you sure they didn't specify netmask
> 255.255.255.252, which allows two free bits to represent you, the
> other end of the wire, the network, and the broadcast address?
> ---scott
> 
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 20:33:26 -0700, Robert L. Harris said:
> >  My ISP hands out single statics by doing a 255.255.255.255 on thier class
> >  C.  They've set it so I can do my own reverse DNS but something isn't
> >  working.  Here's what's in my named.conf:
> >
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