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Re: Implementation questions

2003-11-16 10:04:02
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Philipp Morger wrote:

RFC2181

10.2. PTR records

   Confusion about canonical names has lead to a belief that a PTR
   record should have exactly one RR in its RRSet.  This is incorrect,

And it get's used....

--($:~)-- dig -x 212.25.28.4

;; ANSWER SECTION:
4.28.25.212.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN      PTR     lexx.zh.as8758.net.
4.28.25.212.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN      PTR     dns.as8758.net.

sometimes "lexx" comes first... sometimes "dns"....

If this were a perfect RFC-abiding world we wouldn't need SPF :-)

All I can add to this is that, correctly or not, I believe that the spam
checking rules at the large ISP I work at tests to make sure that your
forward and reverse DNS is correct and matching, and that PTR rotors often
confuse it.  Having not seen the code directly I can't comment on how,
but I suspect it is expecting only 1 PTR record back.

I imagine we are not alone in making this assumption.

Tim

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