On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:30:44AM -0400, Ralph Droms wrote: > Regarding reverse DNS entries ... there is a specific problem > with reverse DNS entries for autoconfiguration addresses regarding > update of the reverse entries by the client.
[ snip ] > There are solutions - disallow reverse DNS updates for > autoconfiguration addresses, let the DNS server that maintains > the prefix allow untrusted updates in the namespace for that > prefix, require some DNSSEC trust mechanism that supports > roaming. Or a simpler approach - make use of ICMP name lookups. Ask the end node it's name, then check the name/address relationship in the forward DNS (which we have to assume has been updated to point to the address). DF -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
