To:
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From:
Kevin Darcy <kcd@daimlerchrysler.com>
Date:
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 18:18:50 -0500
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Subject:
Re: [RETRANSMIT] Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doingreverse for IPv6.
Brad Knowles wrote: > [RETRANSMIT -- sorry, mail server problems again. -Brad] > > At 10:25 AM -0500 2003/03/20, Dean Anderson wrote: > > > It is the optionality, _and_ the harms that come with it, > > _and_ the very little value of the information, _and_ the very large > > amount of work to keep it up, which when taken together make it a > > questionable service. > > You claim that reverse DNS causes harm. Can you provide evidence > for this claim? The (un-Kerberized) versions of the "r-series" commands harm security infrastructure, and reverse DNS enables them to function. Simplistic spam-catching techniques based exclusively on reverse lookups harm intended mail recipients with their frequent false positives. - Kevin #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.