[157539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google PTR?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sun Oct 28 06:16:21 2012
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:15:50 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
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Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 28/10/2012 01:47, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>>> It's often cited as a headache to maintain the PTRs (not really,
>>> automation ftw!) I think really it gets down to "how does it really
>>> help?"
>>
>> why is my traffic between seattle and new york going through tokyo?
>
> 'because someone forgot to rename the ptr' ?
'because it's the mid-2000s and I'm using ipv6?'