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Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?

  • From: Adam McKenna
  • Date: Wed Dec 03 12:46:25 2003 
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:38:10AM -0800, Pete Ehlke wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:28:19AM -0500, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > 
> > ps - there's of course the rather umm... interesting content below ;)
> > http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/avoid-rfc-2317-delegation.html
> > 
> Which is totally, completely wrong and causes, in both cases, servers to
> leak name space (which causes cache poisoning) and, in once case,
> servers to potentially be marked as lame. The man is flat out wrong.
> Don't follow his advice.

How can delegating in-addr.arpa on a per-ip basis be any different or worse
than delegating it using an rfc2317 scheme?

--Adam