Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

Mon May 2 02:40:21 UTC 2005

Nicholas Suan wrote:
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> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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>> On 4/30/05, Steven Champeon <schampeo at hesketh.com> wrote:
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>>> ANantes-106-1-5-107.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr
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>>> You'll see 'abo' for 'cable', perhaps? as well as 'cable'. But for most
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>> abo = short for "abonnement", that is, "subscription" / "subscriber"
>> Just means its a pool of IPs assigned to users, I guess.
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What does the rest of the internet gain when all IPs have boilerplate 
reverse DNS setup for them, especialy with all these wildly differing 
and wacky naming "conventions"?

Isnt it a much simpler world where simply having rDNS lends the 
assumption of a supported "static" system as opposed to none?