At 05:29 PM 6/18/02, Stephen Griffin wrote: >In the referenced message, Daniel Senie said: > > > > At 02:30 PM 6/18/02, Lou Katz wrote: ><snip> > > >Is this common? > > > > I have a CDPD card which has a fixed address. It's from Verizon Wireless. > > There's no INADDR. There seems to be a lack of understanding and clue all > > around on INADDR, which is the motivation for the above-mentioned draft. > > Having something to point network operators and server operators to would, > > IMO, help. > >The lack of clue tends to be on the providing in-addr side of things. >I think it is a great thing to refuse connections from ips without >in-addr, in the same way it is great to refuse mail from domains that >don't provide postmaster addresses. > >It is a means through which one can influence the laziness of others. >Simply disregarding what others do, only legitimizes the laziness, and >continues us along the road of everyone doing the absolute minimum.
While I believe people SHOULD be providing INADDR service, the people hurt by refusing connections are rarely the ones who have any influence. Just as Network Address Translation is not a security solution, neither is checking INADDR. Now if you check INADDR over Secure DNS, you might start having some level of information to trust. >Simply accepting the connections seems to be a "path of least resistance" >which befits a pointy-hair more than an engineer. Well, this engineer also has customers to take care of. Those customers cannot easily influence ATT Broadband or ATT Wireless to do things "right". So, I choose to keep having customers rather than closing down my business over others not having INADDR. > > >-- > > >I suppose I could set up a bogus reverse for him, but, feh... > > > > Either you set up something, or you can make your server not care about > > reverse, or lose the customer. > >You neglect to include the option of the customer changing to an ISP >that provides in-addr. Please explain how a customer changes to another broadband vendor, or another CDPD vendor. Despite your company's presence in a limited number of markets, there are MANY people out there with only one choice (if they're lucky) for broadband. I'd be more likely to lose a customer than get them to change ISPs. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com
