[166276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: comcast ipv6 PTR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cutler James R)
Tue Oct 15 16:25:17 2013
From: Cutler James R <james.cutler@consultant.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131015185550.GF15703@cmadams.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:25:01 -0400
To: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 15, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> said:
>>=20
>> 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:
>>>>=20
>>>> 2001-0db8-85a3-0042-1000-8a2e-0370-7334.example.com
>>>=20
>>> Add some NSEC3 records and, yeah, it's a lot of work. And for what?
>>=20
>> Many mail servers require it as a minimum standard for speaking to
>> their MTA.
>=20
> Random end users shouldn't be talking to MTAs. They should be using
> MSAs instead.
> --=20
> Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
>=20
Semantically confusing --
=46rom wooledge.org:
Mail Submission Agent (MSA): a relatively new term in the e-mail field.=20=
This is the component of an MTA which accepts new mail messages from an =
MUA, using SMTP.
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