Re: Scanning Notices

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:10:46 EDT, Mike Porter said:

> We tell users that wish to engage in scanning to register the IP
> doing the scanning with an appropriate PTR record.
> "scanner.<dept>.<school>.edu".  Departments should only scan their
> own machines, and at rate that does not cause problems.

It's legal for the box to also have a PTR record for actual-hostname.<dept>.<school>.edu
as well - have you encountered any software that barfs when it encounters
multiple PTR records for the same IP?

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