Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

[Joe Maimon]

Nicholas Suan wrote:
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> > On 4/30/05, Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > ANantes-106-1-5-107.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr
> > >
> > > You'll see 'abo' for 'cable', perhaps? as well as 'cable'. But for most
> > abo = short for "abonnement", that is, "subscription" / "subscriber"
> > Just means its a pool of IPs assigned to users, I guess.
What does the rest of the internet gain when all IPs have boilerplate 
reverse DNS setup for them, especialy with all these wildly differing 
and wacky naming "conventions"?

Isnt it a much simpler world where simply having rDNS lends the 
assumption of a supported "static" system as opposed to none?