Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doing reverse for IPv6.

[Kevin Darcy]

George Michaelson wrote:

Radical Surgery proposal: stop doing reverse for IPv6.

straw poll of ADs and WG chairs are mutedly neutral. 

nobody is strongly in favour of continuing.

of course RIR will continue to fulfil reverse delegation role as long as the
community requires it. 

but, maybe its time to stop wanting it.

Reverse DNS for telecom gear (routers, switches, etc.) still makes sense 
IMO, because it demonstrably aids network troubleshooting. But I think 
we should stop recommending it for end nodes. End-node reverse DNS just 
nourishes the myth that you can reliably tell who/where/what 
something/someone is just by doing a reverse lookup on their source 
address, a myth from whence springs wrongheaded security methodologies, 
bogus "traffic-shaping" schemes and similar balderdash. More concisely, 
I think end-node reverse DNS fails cost/benefit analysis.

                                                                        
                                         - Kevin



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