Reverse DNS: Is it necessary?

[James A Griffin]

Please let the list know who your ISP is.  They need help.

It is this sort of technical incompetence and inadequate service that
gives government regulators ammunition for plans they might have for
bring Internet ISPs under some sort of "certified carrier" regulation. 
Is that what they want?

Regards,
Jim

Studio 51 wrote:
> 
> I asked my web host to fix the lack of reverse DNS for the domains they host
> for me, they told me that thier nameservers don't support reverse DNS. Is
> this considered a misconfiguration? It's a dedicated host that will be
> running a spider program, so I would think that many hosts would try to
> perform a reverse DNS lookup on the spider, which will fail because of this.
> Are there any other areas this is likely to affect?
> 
> I thought reverse DNS was a standard part of properly setting up a
> nameserver, am I wrong?
> 
> LKembel