[80476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Sun May 1 22:42:11 2005
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 22:40:21 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Nicholas Suan <nsuan@nonexiste.net>
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>,
North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <42735677.8020704@nonexiste.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Nicholas Suan wrote:
>
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>> On 4/30/05, Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ANantes-106-1-5-107.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr
>>>
>>> You'll see 'abo' for 'cable', perhaps? as well as 'cable'. But for most
>>
>>
>>
>> abo = short for "abonnement", that is, "subscription" / "subscriber"
>> Just means its a pool of IPs assigned to users, I guess.
>>
What does the rest of the internet gain when all IPs have boilerplate
reverse DNS setup for them, especialy with all these wildly differing
and wacky naming "conventions"?
Isnt it a much simpler world where simply having rDNS lends the
assumption of a supported "static" system as opposed to none?
