RFC1123 Section 6, especially 6.1.5 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Schmehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:14 PM To: Dale Babiy; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Reverse dns
--On Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:35:10 AM -0500 Dale Babiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rfc1912 section 2.1 says: > > "Every Internet-reachable host should have a name. The > consequences > of this are becoming more and more obvious. Many services > available > on the Internet will not talk to you if you aren't correctly > registered in the DNS. > > Make sure your PTR and A records match. For every IP address, > there > should be a matching PTR record in the in-addr.arpa domain. This pretty much settles it for me. I think I win this argument. Thanks for all the help from everyone that posted useful responses. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://www.secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://www.secunia.com/
