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To: dnsop@cafax.se
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2003 15:25:12 +0000
In-Reply-To: <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
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