On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Mike Batchelor wrote:
> location. Someone in .ru (Russia) can trivially make a PTR record for their
> IP address that claims it belongs to www.microsoft.com, and presumably the
> download site will let 'em have ITAR software all day long! :)
I'd hazard to guess that forward and reverse lookups must match.
Additionally, they may check the IP allocation to see if it comes from a
US netblock. This still doesn't mean a great deal in terms of the user,
but until ITAR is dead it's given enough for the USG to allow downloading
controlled software.
Paul
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