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 10:05:06 +0100
In-Reply-To:
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0303202116030.32357-100000@commander.av8.net>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: [RETRANSMIT] Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doingreverse for IPv6.
At 9:19 PM -0500 2003/03/20, Dean Anderson wrote:
> We would be admitting that reverse is a pointless endeavor, and at best an
> untrustable convenience function for finding out who is assigned an
> address.
If you want to break reverse DNS for yourself, please feel free
to go right ahead. But don't ask me to break reverse DNS for myself
just because you don't like it. And you have absolutely no right
whatsoever to ask the entire world to stop doing it just because you
find it inconvenient.
If you are really so worried about making sure that r-commands
can't possibly work (which are perfectly safe in isolated networks),
or there are other problems which are caused by reverse DNS
functioning correctly (or not), then I suggest that you make some
proposals that are actually useful, which will help make reverse DNS
more idiot-resistant.
--
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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