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Re: comcast ipv6 PTR


From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () mykolab com>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:59:59 -0700

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On 10/9/2013 9:49 AM, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Robert Webb <rwebb () ropeguru com> said:
>> But how would thet differ from the IPv4 address space which has PTR
>> records for all their IP's? Just the shear number they would have to
>> deal with in the IPv6 space?
>
> Oh, are you looking for auto-generated reverse for every address?
> That's not going to happen for IPv6 (and it turns out that it wasn't
> really a good idea for IPv4).  There's no reason to have reverse DNS
> unless it has meaning, and "12-34-56-78.rev.domain.net" isn't really all
> that useful.
>

That's not necessarily true -- some (very large) organizations using DMARC
will reject mail from hosts without a PTR record.

- - ferg

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