Brad Knowles wrote:

> [RETRANSMIT -- sorry, mail server problems again.  -Brad]
>
> At 10:25 AM -0500 2003/03/20, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> >                  It is the optionality, _and_ the harms that come with it,
> >  _and_ the very little value of the information, _and_ the very large
> >  amount of work to keep it up, which when taken together make it a
> >  questionable service.
>
>         You claim that reverse DNS causes harm.  Can you provide evidence
> for this claim?

The (un-Kerberized) versions of the "r-series" commands harm security
infrastructure, and reverse DNS enables them to function.

Simplistic spam-catching techniques based exclusively on reverse lookups harm
intended mail recipients with their frequent false positives.


- Kevin


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