[93708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Curious question on hop identity...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Thu Dec 14 14:33:29 2006
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:31:48 +0000
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: bmanning@karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0612141339060.12558@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>
> Besides, why do you believe the text in an in-addr.arpa record? Or why do
> you think the absence of an in-addr.arpa record is meaningful?
>
'cause i am a trusting sort... i tend to believe the DNS.
even more so when i can validate the signed replys...
the absence of DNS entries (forward or reverse) leads me
to beleive that address literals are still a useful attribute...
(although I find it tough to justify using octal representations)
--bill
