Re: lame delegations

["Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>]

Yo Joshua!

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Joshua Goodall wrote:

> c) not everyone wants the reverse to match the forward (is this an RFC
>    violation? I hope not :)).

RFC 1912, Sec 2.1:

" 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.  If a
   host is multi-homed, (more than one IP address) make sure that all IP
   addresses have a corresponding PTR record (not just the first one).
   Failure to have matching PTR and A records can cause loss of Internet
   services similar to not being registered in the DNS at all.  Also,
   PTR records must point back to a valid A record, not a alias defined
   by a CNAME.  It is highly recommended that you use some software
   which automates this checking, or generate your DNS data from a
   database which automatically creates consistent data."

I have yet to hear a convincing argument why this RFC should be
ignored.  I have seen many problems when this is ignored.

RGDS
GARY
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