[124] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EP.NET ???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@ISI.EDU)
Mon Jul 31 10:00:56 1995
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
To: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 06:51:16 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: bmanning@ISI.EDU, roll@stupi.se, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199507291333.PAA11181@rype.runit.sintef.no> from "Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no" at Jul 29, 95 03:33:29 pm
> The existence of a forward mapping is not a necessary technical
> precondition for you to insert a reverse mapping which points in
> the right direction, i.e. at the organization operating the
> boxes. However I also have trouble seeing why any ISP would
> willingly decline to register it's boxes in the DNS.
Welcome to the USA, Land of a thousand startup ISP's.
They decline for a couple of reasons:
- They don't have DNS running internally
- They perceive the EP node to be "outside" their domain
- They don't know/care
- A default is provided.
Now I will agree that the forward mapping is not a necessary
technical precondition, there is a need to the reverse mapping.
That mapping needs a name.
--
--bill
