Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host PART II

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Nathan E Norman (nnorman@micromuse.com) spake thusly:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:57:13AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > > Curiosity just bit me in the butt.  Where does the .in-addr.arpa come
> > > from?  
> > 
> > From the way bind works. See e.g. O'Reilly's "DNS and Bind".
> 
> Well, er, it's not there because of the way BIND works.  Rather, BIND
> works that way because it is conforming to the standards.  See STD13,
> section 5.2.1 and RFC1035, section 3.5 for some discussion of the
> IN-ADDR.ARPA domain.
>  
> Sorry to be pedantic :)

It's OK. I should've said "because that's How Things Are[tm]". ;)

Dima
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