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Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?
- From: Stephen Sprunk
- Date: Tue Jun 18 18:08:30 2002
Thus spake "Stephen Griffin" <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
> The lack of clue tends to be on the providing in-addr side of
> things. I think it is a great thing to refuse connections from
> ips without in-addr, in the same way it is great to refuse mail
> from domains that don't provide postmaster addresses.
On first reading, I thought that was sarcasm. Now I realize you're serious.
> It is a means through which one can influence the laziness of
> others. Simply disregarding what others do, only legitimizes
> the laziness, and continues us along the road of everyone
> doing the absolute minimum.
> ...
> You neglect to include the option of the customer changing
> to an ISP that provides in-addr.
So, if you ran Amazon.com, you wouldn't accept money from customers of clueless
ISPs?
Sadly, even that level of coercion wouldn't be anywhere near enough to motivate
most ISPs. And your (non-)customers will be caught in the crossfire.
S
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