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From: kannan@osc.edu (Kannan Varadhan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: no inverse mappings
Message-ID: <789@malgudi.osc.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 90 01:44:01 GMT
References: <1990Aug10.152144.17260@ee.rochester.edu> <1990Aug10.162416.22650@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Aug10.222515.12542@iwarp.intel.com>
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Thus spake merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
>In article <1990Aug10.162416.22650@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, paul@uxc (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:
>| On the machines I administer, ftp/telnet/rsh/etc have been modified to reject
>| connections from IP addresses that can't be inverse mapped.  An informative
>| message is printed in some cases (ftp) that says why and what to do about it:
>
>Yeah, and they both piss me off, because they don't take into consideration
>real-world politics and staffing.

And, somehow, it seems to go against our grain of "be conservative in
what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others"[%] policy.

I have come across a lot of people who try very hard, but don't always
succeed in getting things right, or have a lot of trouble understanding
the concept.  Penalising them in this rather harsh manner seems
somewhat rude to me, and may not be quite the way to coerce people to
use the DNS, or to get them to straighten out their end of things.


Kannan

[%] Quote from RFC793, by Jon Postel.
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Kannan Varadhan, Internet Engineer, OARNet
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