[146163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Performance Issues - PTR Records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sun Nov 6 21:46:15 2011
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 20:45:03 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> said:
> I'll suggest that (a) IF the addresses do migrate among different customers
> of the ISP, (b) the addresses handed out are publicly routable, AND (c) the
> CPE has to 'authenticate' itself to the head-end, then it is _very_ useful
> *to*the*ISP* to have dynamically-assigned DNS records of the form:
> cust.{accountid}.{locationid}.ISP.{com/net/TLD}
> or something of the sort.
Putting a customer ID in reverse DNS would probably be a violation of
privacy policies.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
