To:
Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Date:
Fri, 21 Mar 2003 02:38:54 +0100
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<Pine.LNX.4.44.0303201940490.32357-100000@commander.av8.net>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: [RETRANSMIT] Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doingreverse for IPv6.
At 7:44 PM -0500 2003/03/20, Dean Anderson wrote:
> It was well hashed over in namedroppers. The short answer is that admins
> and programmers place trust in it. This trust is misplaced, and results in
> a number of harms. For example, useless logfile entries (because the
> programmers fail to record the IP address), and it results in security
> compromises, of the .rhosts nature, where admins put trust in the results
> of a reverse query.
So, we should cripple the entire Internet, and all those people
who have half a clue and know what the risks are, just because some
morons are not capable of understanding the problem?
I'm sorry, what was your reasonable argument again?
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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