Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:49:30PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Don't you think standards are important? Properly configured DNS
> has both forward-lookup A records and reverse-lookup PTR records.
> We shouldn't encourage anyone to compromise on that, because
> it is not difficult to configure.
Well, 203.36.158.121 doesn't reverse resolve to anything because Telstra are
absolutely bloody useless, and can't delegate the chunk of 203.36.158.*
through to us ... *sigh*. No PTR is alright, because of valid reasons like
this, and the fact that you can do WHOISes on the IPs. I say this because
you can WHOIS an IP, but you can't exactly WHOIS
scriptkiddie.fuckyou.microsoft.com.
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Daniel Stone
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