On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 06:12:21PM -0400, David Hubbard wrote: > From: Matt Chung [mailto:[email protected]] > > Historically, there was no compelling reason to create PTR > > records for our CPE however more and more applications seem > > to be dependent on it. Although we will be assigning a > > record for each address, my question is why > > is the application (specifically HTTP) dependent on a reverse record ? > > What is the purpose? > > As a web host, we frequently find customers who have > added Apache rules to their ecommerce sites to block > undesirable traffic, such as credit card scammers, etc. > Not knowing any better, they often do this by just > blocking anything that ends in .in to block Indonesia > for example.
That's even less effective than you'd naively expect, given that Indonesia's TLD is .id... - Matt
