nslookup from WinNT machine

[Kevin Darcy]

Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 11:11 AM -0700 5/24/01, Ravi Nair wrote:
>
>         Of course, you'll probably want to get reverse DNS for this IP
> address (and your others) fixed, so that you don't have these kinds
> of problems.  Indeed, broken reverse DNS is probably still one of the
> single biggest problems on the 'net these days.  Sigh....

Or, one of the biggest non-problems, depending on one's point of view. IMO,
no-one should be authenticating by reverse lookup, and as for mapping
individual addresses to netblocks, well, that hardly calls for the
maintenance of millions of PTR records when a few thousand (okay, maybe tens
of thousands of) netblock records will suffice. And netblock records give you
*better* information anyway, like the names and numbers of those responsible
for the netblock.

I agree that functional reverse lookups are a nice *convenience*. But that's
as far as I'd go. I certainly wouldn't consider them mandatory. Incorrect
delegation and glue records rank *much* higher on my list of Internet DNS pet
peeves...


- Kevin