Performance Issues - PTR Records

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon Nov 7 02:45:03 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> said:
> I'll suggest that (a) IF the addresses do migrate among different customers
> of the ISP, (b) the addresses handed out are publicly routable, AND (c) the
> CPE has to 'authenticate' itself to the head-end, then it is _very_ useful 
> *to*the*ISP* to have dynamically-assigned DNS records of the form: 
>    cust.{accountid}.{locationid}.ISP.{com/net/TLD}
> or something of the sort.

Putting a customer ID in reverse DNS would probably be a violation of
privacy policies.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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