Reverse lookup on a subnet

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Tue Dec 23 00:32:29 UTC 2003


Stein Oddvar Rasmussen <stor at online.no> wrote:
> bill wrote:
>>>Um. Okay. What happens if I do not use reverse lookup at all?
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>> 	Well, if its your prefix and you don't publish the data,
>> 	then not only do YOU "not use reverse lookup at all",
>> 	NO one else on the Internet will be able to do a reverse
>> 	lookup on your delegated address space.

> Well, yes. Obviously. That I figured out on my own. What else? Will I=20
> get arrested by the DNS-police? Will my domain-names stop working? Will=
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> the internet masters shut me down?

> Regards,

> Stein O. R.

Irony might get you some distance.

Ignoring reverse-dns will only make your site look slower
and keep some valid e-mail away from you. Nothing you=20
will miss.


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