[76089] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is reverse dns required? (policy question)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Wed Dec 1 12:14:52 2004
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:14:20 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <41ADF7B7.3090408@undef.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 12/01/04, Greg Albrecht <gba@undef.net> wrote:
> are we obligated, as a user of ARIN ip space, or per some BCP, to
> provide ad-hoc reverse dns to our customers with-out cost, or without
> financial obligation.
From a purely network operations perspective: YES, every IP
address should have matching forward & reverse DNS. That's been
beyond best practices and into the "everybody does it unless
they're really stupid" realm for well over a decade.
Reverse DNS has only become /more/ important as spam-blocking
efforts noticed the strong correlation between networks too lazy
to maintain reverse DNS, and networks too lazy or evil to care
if they were hosting spammers.
As for the finances...that's up to you, but I've never before
heard of a provider who charged extra for it.
--
J.D. Falk okay, what's next?
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
