Re: [DNSOP] New Version Notification for draft-pusateri-dnsop-update-timeout-00.txt

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

On Saturday, August 25, 2018 12:53:01 PM UTC Ted Lemon wrote:
> I'm not saying nobody does it.   I'm trying to understand how this helps.

in my own experience, nothing which needs a hostname (so, having an AAAA and 
PTR RR) doesn't have a static address. if an address is handed out by SLAAC or 
by DHCP, it initiates connections but does not respond to any. i realize that 
there are other modes of being, but that's mine.

furthermore i go to some length to de-automate PTR creation by ISP's. there 
are lists of auto-generated PTR base domains (d.c.b.a.in-addr.arpa pointing to 
host-a-b-c-d.isp.net) that i wish to treat as nonexistent for the purpose of 
choosing whether to receive high value connections (like to my SMTP server). 
it would be better for me if these automated PTR's did not work. no web server 
will ever reject PTR-less connections, so, outbound connections will mostly 
still work, just not for my SMTP server. i realize that there are other modes 
of being, but that's mine.

i have no objection to having other DHCP servers (not the ones i run) 
registering PTR's for its assignments. that's why i wrote DEFUPD in 1996. i 
just don't expect to use DEFUPD in my own servers. that's why DEFUPD solves a 
more general problem (asynchronous DNS updates in general, not just expiry.) 
that URL again for those historians who missed it:

http://family.redbarn.org/~vixie/defupd.txt

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Vixie