> Personally I think DNS reverse lookups should go away, not site-locals

you mean you'd take away functionality that's actually *useful* 
in order to save a hack of dubious value?

> In my opinion, using ICMP name lookups to the
> node itself is a much better solution to making reverse
> lookups work, and they would work fine for scoped addresses.

the node's opinion of its name isn't the same piece of information as 
the network administrator's opinion of a node's name.  

you might be able to trust the network admin, but you certainly can't
trust the node.

Keith
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