On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Brad Knowles wrote:
> You claim that reverse DNS causes harm. Can you provide evidence
> for this claim?
It was well hashed over in namedroppers. The short answer is that admins
and programmers place trust in it. This trust is misplaced, and results in
a number of harms. For example, useless logfile entries (because the
programmers fail to record the IP address), and it results in security
compromises, of the .rhosts nature, where admins put trust in the results
of a reverse query.
--Dean
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