Peter Triller
9/26/2003 2:20:00 PM
On Friday 26 September 2003 16:02, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
> ts [mailto:decoux@moulon.inra.fr] wrote:
> > N> ntalbott@proxytest:~$ host cancer.org
> > N> cancer.org has address 209.135.47.118
> > N> cancer.org has address 0.0.0.0
> >
> > Why do you want to work with something which is broken ?
> >
> > svg% host 209.135.47.118
> > Host 118.47.135.209.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> > svg%
>
> Because my customers want to access broken sites, and they don''t care that
> they''re broken. They''ll tell me, "It loads in my browser... why can''t your
> system find it?" If I can''t get this to work, I''ll just have to stop
> checking DNS, which would be unfortunate.
>
> Thanks, Guy.
>
>
> Nathaniel
>
Well, this domains just dont have a reverse DNS entry. Thats not a ruby
problem, but a DNS problem.
and this is not really broken. it is not mandatory for an IP address to have a
mapping to a domain naime IIRC.
and even if it exists it could be totally different from the original domain,
as you can map lots of domains to an IP address.