[105661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Shankland)
Sat Jun 28 13:27:47 2008
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:27:15 -0700
From: Jim Shankland <nanog@shankland.org>
To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080628161844.GT31980@catpipe.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: nanog@shankland.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Phil Regnauld wrote:
> Requirement ? What requirement ? There's no requirement for
> reverse DNS for email in any RFC.
As a practical matter, I've found that sending out email from a
host without rDNS doesn't work: too many sites bounce the mail.
It will not come as news to anyone on this list that the world
of SMTP is hardly well-defined or well-regulated in practice.
Like Rowlf the dog, we can't live with it, we can't live without
it, but we're stuck until something better comes along:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vvV9LjBsNw
Jim Shankland
