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        RFC 1788:

        Title:      ICMP Domain Name Messages
        Author:     W. Simpson
        Date:       April 1995
        Mailbox:    Bill.Simpson@um.cc.umich.edu
        Pages:      7
        Characters: 11,722
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1788.txt


This document specifies ICMP messages for learning the Fully Qualified
Domain Name associated with an IP address.

IESG Note: An Internet Engineering Steering Group comment from the
co-Area Director for IPng: Please note well that this memo is an
individual product of the author.  It presents one view of the IN-ADDR
mechanism, motivated by discussion in the IPNG WG of the difficulty of
secure, dynamic update of the reverse tree.  Other IETF discussion and
ongoing standards work on this area will be found in the IP Next
Generation (ipngwg), DNS IXFR, Notification, and Dynamic Update
(dnsind), DNS Security (dnssec) working groups.

This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community.  This does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute