To:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Måns Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
Date:
Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:57:43 +0100
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Sender:
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Subject:
Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doing reverse for IPv6.
--On Sunday, March 23, 2003 15:51:55 +0900 "JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?=" <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> wrote: > So the question is if security benefits provided by reverse lookups > outweighs the disadvantages. Security usage of reverse is so absurd (given that DNNSEC will not help if someone tries to put another domain as RDATA in PTR records) that it is irrelevant. Convenience of having it for less precise needs is not. -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.