On Jul 4, 2011, at 8:23 PM, John R. Levine wrote:

>> Reverse IPv6 caches well.  You just can't pre-populate servers with PTR
>> records for all 2^64 ptr records in a normal IPv6 subnet.  You need to
>> use tools that add records for nodes that actually exist.  Those tools
>> are a decade old now.
> 
> Over in e-mail land, we've been pondering the behavior of spammers, who will 
> likely hop to a different IPv6 address for every spam. If you do rDNS 
> lookups, your cache will fill up with useless entries, maybe PTR, maybe 
> NXDOMAIN, it hardly matters.  DNSBLs and DNSWLs, if done the same way as they 
> are in IPv4, have the same problem.  These issues are well known in the mail 
> ops community, where it's now the standard advice not to try rDNS lookups on 
> incoming IPv6 mail.

Yes, but rDNS PTR lookups always have been pretty much meaningless anyway, and 
will only get worse in IPv4 due to LSN. 

Keith

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