RE: [Full-disclosure] Reverse dns

[Andriy Bilous <Andriy.Bilous@xxxxxxxxx>]

RFC1123 Section 6, especially 6.1.5

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From: Paul Schmehl [mailto:pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:14 PM
To: Dale Babiy; full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Reverse dns


--On Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:35:10 AM -0500 Dale Babiy 
<DaleB@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Rfc1912 section 2.1 says:
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>    "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@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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