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February-March 2002
slideset 7 -10
Mapping addresses to names
nRevert the decimal representation:
u192.26.1.3 maps to 3.1.26.192 and put this under a top level domain.
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uFor IPv4 this TLD is in-addr.arpa
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nIn the DNS one publishes PTR records to point back to the name:
4.0.0.193.in-addr.arpa 3600 IN PTR bert.secret-wg.org.