To:
Markus Stumpf <maex-lists-dns-ietf-dnsop@Space.Net>
cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Date:
Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:30:05 -0400 (EDT)
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<20030407201122.J8692@Space.Net>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-04.txt
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Markus Stumpf wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:29:54PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote: > > this host. That is clearly undesirable for my case--I don't want to give > > out that information. So there is a good reason for it in my example. > > You mean security by obscurity? No, security by password. The forward domain name is a password for our customers. Of course, all security is through obsurity of the key. > There is a much easier way to find out all the domains hosted by us than > to ask for the PTR records of each and every IP of e.g. our /16. Really? What is it? > > And frankly, your competitors will no doubt find the list of your > > customers useful. > > So what? We don't fear competitors. Most customers that went away came > back, without us having to do something. Quality sells. So, you expect everyone to give out their customer lists? Not every ISP shares your hubris. > > Perhaps you want to rethink that long PTR list. And at > > some point, it will be too big for a UDP reply. I hadn't even thought > > about that until I looked at your big list. Then what? > > Then we don't add other names. If you don't add them, then their reverse is broken, according to this proposal. #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.