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Re: comcast ipv6 PTR

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Oct 15 14:56:04 2013

Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:55:50 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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In-Reply-To: <21085.35312.817571.962150@world.std.com>
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Once upon a time, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> said:
> 
> On October 15, 2013 at 03:31 johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) wrote:
>  > >it's a lot of work for example.com to return something like:
>  > >
>  > >   2001-0db8-85a3-0042-1000-8a2e-0370-7334.example.com
>  > 
>  > Add some NSEC3 records and, yeah, it's a lot of work.  And for what?
> 
> Many mail servers require it as a minimum standard for speaking to
> their MTA.

Random end users shouldn't be talking to MTAs.  They should be using
MSAs instead.
-- 
Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>


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