[67510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: question on ptr rr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Feb 10 22:33:37 2004
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:02:53 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20040211030535.3F46A16DD87@corpmail.outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Randy Bush wrote:
> as your percentiles look worse than those here, do you think
> it is indian dns maintenance or politics, or linux list
> users, or both?
DNS maintenance, and cluelessness at several ISPs - quite a few ISPs
don't even have PTR RR for their smarthosts.
Luckily most of the larger ISPs around do have PTR for their smarthosts,
but several of them seem to think it is not necessary for their dialup /
dsl pool, or even for their colo clients.. rDNS is an "added extra" that
you have to pay for)
Good thing = there's a regional netops conference called SANOG (South
Asian NOG, at http://www.sanog.org) that concentrates on the indian
subcontient region and is also priced cheaply enough so that lots more
people from the subcontinent can attend.
Priced cheaply as in other netops conferences are dirt cheap in dollars,
but USD 1 = INR 48, and the average monthly salary of a mid level ISP
sysadmin is something like USD 500..600.
srs
