To:
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From:
Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date:
19 Mar 2003 15:25:12 +0000
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<20030319090724.0088218a.ggm@apnic.net>
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Subject:
Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doing reverse for IPv6.
ggm@apnic.net (George Michaelson) writes: > Radical Surgery proposal: stop doing reverse for IPv6. i think this is the wrong approach. at a minimum, folks want to be able to postprocess their transaction logs at the end of a day and still be able to do gethostbyaddr() even if many of the nodes that came to their web servers (or whatever) are by that time offline or unreachable. it's also extremely important for abuse tracking. then there's the inability of network owners to enforce, should they choose, some kind of policy on gethostbyname(gethostbyaddr(x))==x or the converse. the right approach, in my opinion, is either some kind of synthesis or a simple dns dynamic update rule allowing every host the authority to update its own PTR RR as long as it uses TCP and maybe SIG(0) or maybe not. -- Paul Vixie #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.