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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: 16 Aug 90 16:39:27 GMT
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In article <9008141419.AA03517@socrates.ee.rochester.edu> deke@EE.ROCHESTER.EDU (Dikran Kassabian) writes:
>I'm not looking for strict
>authentication, I just want to know for the most part who is on the other
>end of the line.

Considering that internet numbers are much more difficult to forge
than .IN-ADDR.ARPA entries, you would be better off sticking with the
IP address as a form of identification.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
    Disclaimer: All opinions are strictly those of the author.
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