> vixie> Indeed not. We currently have to maintain a large and complex
> vixie> distributed registry of ipv4 ptr patterns which are meaningless
> vixie> and must therefore be filtered out before making policy decisions
> vixie> about the presence/absence and match/doesn't of a ptr record and
> vixie> it's associated a record.
> 
> You are already doing this, correct? Not good, has pain, but at least in
> place?
> 
> And if I used a generation method for v6 that exactly matched v4, I'd
> just get caught in exactly the same filters, right?

If you assume that IPv6 mail servers have static PTRs, there is zero
added value (and a bit of work) in creating/synthesizing IPv6 PTRs for
residential customers. Much better to simply not do it in the first
place.

Steinar Haug, AS 2116

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