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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: no inverse mappings
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Date: 13 Aug 90 13:38:05 GMT
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In-Reply-To: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu's message of 11 Aug 90 07:58:44 GMT

I'd rather see a few sites with misconfigured inverse mappings
becoming temporarily inconvenienced, than the entire world thrown into
a tailspin because some yahoo laid UUNET low via a security hole that
could have been avoided by disallowing non-inverse-mapped access.