On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:46:16 -0800 (PST)
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net wrote:
DNS is specially designed to be tied to IP addresses
uh, no.
yes reverse DNS can be used to lookup domain names but DNS names are not
"tied" to IP address - the mapping from a DNS name to an IP address is
arbitrary, and so is the reverse mapping, the two don't have to match
or even exists. and anybody with an IP address block can claim that
those addresses are associated with any domain he likes.
IP-to-domain lookup is often meaningless anyway, in many cases returning
what is essentially a text representation of the IP address with some
provider's name appended.
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