[6bone] Re: reverse 6dns painful (was Re: reverse DNS consideredpointless)

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:20:47AM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > I agree with Chuck, and we were kind of getting there with the bitstring
> > proposed standard (but that is ugly, to say the least). 
> 
> Not being aware of the history, what exactly was wrong with the 
> bitstring reverse records? It seemed pretty ok to me to use.

"complicating of the on-wire protocol, updating every single DNS server
out there, just to fix a frontend issue"

Gert Doering
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