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Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?


From: Adam McKenna <adam () flounder net>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:27:22 -0800


On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:38:10AM -0800, Pete Ehlke wrote:

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:28:19AM -0500, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

ps - there's of course the rather umm... interesting content below ;)
http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/avoid-rfc-2317-delegation.html

Which is totally, completely wrong and causes, in both cases, servers to
leak name space (which causes cache poisoning) and, in once case,
servers to potentially be marked as lame. The man is flat out wrong.
Don't follow his advice.

How can delegating in-addr.arpa on a per-ip basis be any different or worse
than delegating it using an rfc2317 scheme?

--Adam


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