In message <[email protected]>, Joe Touch writes: > > > On 4/3/2012 6:12 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > > > >>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Touch<[email protected]> writes: > > >> There was some minor discussion in the WG about whether reverse > > >> DNS was needed at all for home networks. > > > > Joe> Why? Do we all like stalls on reverse lookups ( telnet, some > > Joe> logging, x509 validation, acls)? > > > > I have no idea why you like to have stalls. > > My network doesn't have any such things, and there is no reason you have > > to stall things to do a lookup. > > The above things stall waiting for a lookup to complete and timeout when > they lack a reverse DNS entry.
Lack of a reverse entry DOES NOT CAUSE A STALL. Broken delegations cause stalls. Unreachable nameservers cause stalls. Not having a PTR record does not cause a stall as you get back NXDOMAIN. If a reverse lookup is slow complain to the administrators of the reverse zone and if that fails complain to the RIR to get the delegation removed. A broken delegation is *much* worse than no delegation. > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected] _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
