Comment 9 for bug 2024625

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Alberto Donato (ack) wrote :

Actually, the reverse lookup returns a CNAME pointing to the subnet section, but that record has no address associated to it.

As an example:

$ dig -x 192.168.36.71 +nocomments

; <<>> DiG 9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> -x 192.168.36.71 +nocomments
;; global options: +cmd
;71.36.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
71.36.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 17 IN CNAME 71.64-26.36.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
64-26.36.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 17 IN SOA silo2.lab0.solutionsqa. nobody.example.com. 180 600 1800 604800 30
64-26.36.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 30 IN SOA silo2.lab0.solutionsqa. nobody.example.com. 180 600 1800 604800 30
;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 01 07:02:31 UTC 2023
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 190

$ dig 71.64-26.36.168.192.in-addr.arpa. +nocomments

; <<>> DiG 9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> 71.64-26.36.168.192.in-addr.arpa. +nocomments
;; global options: +cmd
;71.64-26.36.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN A
64-26.36.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 30 IN SOA silo2.lab0.solutionsqa. nobody.example.com. 180 600 1800 604800 30
;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 01 07:02:49 UTC 2023
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 137