Subj : IP flags
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Wed Dec 03 2014 11:24:08

Hi Kees,

>> So, no I don't.. I would think www.fidonet.org and fidonet.org should
>> return the same info... Someone messed up the Zone records over there
>> maybe?

> I will not endorse that, the one is a domain name the other most probably
> a host name. There is a custom to do what you suggest.

Ok, wasn't thinking in those terms.  Not a big deal in any case.

> I have been looking at some random hostnames in no-ip-org that I found in the
> nodelist:

> $ host oal-fido.no-ip.org.net
> oal-fido.no-ip.org.net has address 23.21.224.150
[...]

I get the same results as you except for one, where you found no dns found, my 
system returned an ip:

host fidocl.no-ip.org
fidocl.no-ip.org.net has address 23.21.224.150

fwtw :)

> So it is clear that someone who has org.net as domainname has only one
> host and has setup a wildcard entry that always directs to that host.

Looks like it...

[...]
> So it all seems coincidence.

>The only question that remains is where did the expansion from org. to org.net
> come from.

It would seem some strangeness in Ubuntu 12.4, perhaps.  That's what I run 
here.

> It also happened in Oktober when I sent you a small list.

I remember that, yes.

>The expamsion of org to org.net also occurred there together with the response
> of 23.21.244.150

> Weird science.

Yes :)

Take care,
Janis

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