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Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-04 22:02:53
On Jul 4, 2011, at 8:23 PM, John R. Levine wrote:

Reverse IPv6 caches well.  You just can't pre-populate servers with PTR
records for all 2^64 ptr records in a normal IPv6 subnet.  You need to
use tools that add records for nodes that actually exist.  Those tools
are a decade old now.

Over in e-mail land, we've been pondering the behavior of spammers, who will 
likely hop to a different IPv6 address for every spam. If you do rDNS 
lookups, your cache will fill up with useless entries, maybe PTR, maybe 
NXDOMAIN, it hardly matters.  DNSBLs and DNSWLs, if done the same way as they 
are in IPv4, have the same problem.  These issues are well known in the mail 
ops community, where it's now the standard advice not to try rDNS lookups on 
incoming IPv6 mail.

Yes, but rDNS PTR lookups always have been pretty much meaningless anyway, and 
will only get worse in IPv4 due to LSN. 

Keith

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