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From: Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: no inverse mappings
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Date: 13 Aug 90 21:25:37 GMT
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In article <BOB.90Aug13093801@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>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.

Bob, I hope you aren't really so naive as to believe that inverse
mappings are somehow secure, that the mere existence in some
resolver's cache of an .IN-ADDR.ARPA record for an internet address
means that activity apparently emanating from such an address can
always be traced to the person responsible.

The idea that "the entire world" depends upon uunet is pretty amusing.
It bothers me that I didn't see any smileys nor any hint that they
were implied.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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