Johan Ihren wrote:

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.

From an architecture point of view, I would have some sympathy for this argument.
However, from a pragmatic point, ISP who are doing it today in v4 land do it for some reasons.
Can you assume that this set of reason is gone with IPv6?

- Alain.







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