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To: Kevin Darcy <kcd@daimlerchrysler.com>
CC: dnsop@cafax.se
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:05:15 -0600
In-Reply-To: <3E78AE81.7080405@daimlerchrysler.com>
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Subject: Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doing reverse for IPv6.


on 3/19/2003 11:53 AM Kevin Darcy wrote:

> Reverse DNS for telecom gear (routers, switches, etc.) still makes sense 
> IMO, because it demonstrably aids network troubleshooting. But I think 
> we should stop recommending it for end nodes.

As soon as a viable alternative is in wide-spread production and which
doesn't have the same kinds of problems (or new ones which are worse), we
can do so. Until then, it's pretty much the only reasonable game in town
for the masses to use.

-- 
Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

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