Op 23 sep 2023 om 19:48 heeft Fred Morris <m3...@m3047.net> het volgende 
geschreven:

> I think what's happening with cloudflare-dns reflects my working hypothesis, 
> which is that infrastructury stuff has a higher likelihood of having reverse 
> DNS attended to and cloudy, direct to consumer stuff has a lower likelihood.

I guess, maybe, depending on what you mean by infrastructury and consumer, 
which are pretty broad categories :-)

> The question in my mind is how often the same entity controls the forward 
> domains and the relevant reverse domains, because there is little to no 
> technical impediment in that case for generating and publishing a 
> notional-as-to-intent reverse DNS entry from their own forward emissions.

Using Cloudflare's customers as an example, some people bring their own 
addresses for a variety of reasons and others use Cloudflare addresses.

In both cases it is possible for there to be a one to one, static mapping 
between a single name and a single address, but the more common situation by 
far is for there to be many (sometimes very, very many) names associated with a 
single address, and for the mapping to be dynamic and to change often. What 
reverse DNS strategy makes sense in that scenario? The strategy of not 
provisioning reverse DNS at all in those cases does not seem ridiculous. 

In the case where a one to one mapping does exist between a customer address 
and a customer name, my observation is that people don't bother to make reverse 
DNS available even though it is quite easy to do so. This seems to support the 
apparent consensus that there's no compelling operational reason to bother.


Joe
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