reverse DNS considered pointless was: [6bone] Fwd: BCP 80, RFC 3681 on Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Mon Feb 9 06:37:00 PST 2004


Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> writes:
> Reverse DNS is commonly - whether rightly or wrongly - used by mail
> servers before accepting email from a client.

It is used for all sorts of purposes, and not having it work would be
a major pain in the neck.

Perry


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