[77114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Thu Jan 13 11:41:55 2005
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:41:27 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200501131521.j0DFLKew032301@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:21:20AM -0500,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote
a message of 45 lines which said:
> > Requesting rDNS means "I don't want to receive email from Africa".
>
> Having an rDNS entry for a host doesn't mean you know if it is/isn't
> in Africa,
Of course, I know that. I just mentioned Africa because, in many
countries in Africa, it is simply impossible to get a PTR
record. That's a fact, there are many reasons behind.
