In fact many ISP's only allow their clients to update the forward maps since
they don't want to set those blocks of addresses into SWIPPED mode.
T.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Manning" <bmanning@xxxxxxx>
To: "Mark Andrews" <Mark_Andrews@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Richard Shockey" <richard@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Dave Crocker"
<dcrocker@xxxxxxxx>; "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@xxxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: problem dealing w/ ietf.org mail servers
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 07:57:58AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
A mobile machine can register its current addresses in the
DNS regardless much more easily than it can register its
reverse PTR records.
er... both are registering things in the DNS. manipulation
of the farward map is occasionally easier than manipulation
of the reverse map... which i think is what you are trying
to say.
and it is often true that those who manage the forward DNS map
are -NOT- the same folks that manage the reverse DNS map.
--bill
Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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