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Re: [Asrg] Re: A plea for more hierarchy in DNS

2004-10-30 01:14:56
On 2004-10-28 15:22:49 -0700, Douglas Campbell wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004, Claus Assmann wrote:
Wouldn't it be simpler to support MTAmark instead of some naming
scheme? Maybe an organization has some guidelines it needs/wants
to follow for naming hosts; MTAmark wouldn't interfere with that
but still allows others to find out whether a system is supposed
to send mail.

Claus, you are correct, provided MTAmark is implemented.  What is the
status of MTAmark?  MTAmark seems to be a modification of the DNS
specification, so how long before everyone's BINDs get up to date?

Last time I looked, MTAmark needed only a couple of TXT records. No
change of DNS or BIND necessary.

To be really honest, I'm small fry.  I don't do my own DNS -- I let my
registrar do it.  And the interface they have doesn't seem to allow for
TXT records.

You aren't the only one. My ISP doesn't delegate reverse DNS for /29
networks, so I couldn't implement MTAmark for my home network myself but
need my ISP to do that. (OTOH, maybe that isn't that bad - let ISPs
publish MTA=no indications for their whole range and customers who want
to run their own MTA have to explicitely tell their ISP).

        hp

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