Reminded? ok - consider me reminded.

Cleaning up the in-addr-arpa files is one of those jobs which
require a script written - and on the exhaustive to do list
which covers my desk, my floor, out the door, down the corridor...
its there somewhere, just waiting to be done.

However as the historical admin for gw.au I gave it back to
kre to destroy yonks ago, for the reason that it simply was
a mistake that had no reason to be perpetuated in the DNS.


g


At 09:20 AM 5/6/98 +1000, David Keegel wrote:
>]     Date:        Tue, 5 May 1998 13:19:39 +1000 (EST)
>]     From:        Antony <antony&#167;sydney.healey.com.au>
>]     Message-ID:  <199805050319.NAA03439&#167;sydney.healey.com.au>
>] 
>]   | believe some of the "more exclusive" ones (eg, gw.au) should be closed down,
>
>kre wrote: 
>] gw.au is already closed down (it no longer exists).
>
>Perhaps somebody needs to remind Telstra Internet that gw.au is closed.
>I count 429 PTR references (>10%) to gw.au from 130.139.in-addr.arpa.
>
>But then, I also count 10 mis-spellings of telstra.net, 18 references
>to aarnet (1 mis-spelt), and 6 domains missing a trailling dot, so perhaps
>we should not be too surprised to see so many "dangling pointers".
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> David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au>  URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
>Cybersource P/L: Unix Systems Administration and TCP/IP network management
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