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reverse DNS considered pointless was: [6bone] Fwd: BCP 80, RFC 3681 on Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA
- Subject: reverse DNS considered pointless was: [6bone] Fwd: BCP 80, RFC 3681 on Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA
- From: perry at piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger)
- Date: Mon Feb 9 06:37:07 2004
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Tim Chown's message of "Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:20:02 +0000")
- References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Tim Chown <[email protected]> writes:
> Reverse DNS is commonly - whether rightly or wrongly - used by mail
> servers before accepting email from a client.
It is used for all sorts of purposes, and not having it work would be
a major pain in the neck.
Perry