[69235] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the value of reverse address lookups?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Wed Mar 31 21:18:15 2004
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:17:40 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1080782041.4836.3.camel@liberate>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Douglas F. Calvert wrote:
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> What more is known about the mail sender or ssh client
>just because the reverse address lookup goes through?
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You have a clue as to who their ISP thinks they are...for starters. Also
its easier on the eyes in the logfiles.
>Anyone care to give their thoughts on the legacy aspect?
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I gather that most people here, far from viewing it as legacy,
increasingly support more prejudicial treatment of those hosts without it...
>--
>Douglas F. Calvert
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