RE: Reverse dns

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:35:10 AM -0500 Dale Babiy 
<DaleB () BETWWTS com> wrote:
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> Rfc1912 section 2.1 says:
>
>    "Every Internet-reachable host should have a name.  The
> consequences
>    of this are becoming more and more obvious.  Many services
> available
>    on the Internet will not talk to you if you aren't correctly
>    registered in the DNS.
>
>    Make sure your PTR and A records match.  For every IP address,
> there
>    should be a matching PTR record in the in-addr.arpa domain.

This pretty much settles it for me.  I think I win this argument.

Thanks for all the help from everyone that posted useful responses.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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