I also support Pete's position.
Tony Hansen
tony(_at_)att(_dot_)com
Pete Resnick wrote:
Absolutely true. However, the idea of publishing information in the DNS
(this group's chartered mission) is to allow site to say through the DNS
which machines are and are not expected to be sending MTAs. Though it is
possible for some folks to publish this information in the reverse space
and provide this information based solely on IP address, it is much
easier for many sites to publish this information in the forward space
for machines based on their domain names. Many sites don't own records
in the reverse space for their IP addresses, but do own the forward
domain records. I'd much rather see a situation in which everyone has
the ability to publish information about which machines are expected to
be MTAs or their domain instead of (the likely outcome) only some sites
being able to publish information in the reverse DNS and the rest being
able to say nothing at all.