Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > during meeting presentation RFC1101-like hack was proposed. > my take is: > (1) it is very bad for getaddrinfo/getnameinfo to synthesize things. > (2) see draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-04.txt, reverse mapping is > not required. > (3) it is too late to change getaddrinfo/getnameinfo behavior. > > so don't do it.
I fully agree with this. Most of the justification for this is to support broken applications that barf when they fail to do the reverse lookup. This is a problem with the broken applications that we should not compromise the infrastructure to avoid fixing. Johan Ihr�n Autonomica #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
