On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:51:46 +0200
Per Jessen <p...@computer.org> wrote:

> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> 
> > another serious question: should IPs with statically assigned IP
> > addresses get the same processing as if they were dynamically
> > assigned?
> 
> Probably not, but there's no guaranteed way of telling them apart. 
> 
> > Of course it's much better to have personalised DNS name than
> > generic one, but *DYNAMIC* should still not match, becausse the ip
> > is just not dynamic.
> 
> How do you know that?

Presumably because the reverse DNS contains "STATIC"

The SORBS DUL listing criteria contains this line:

"Generic reverse DNS naming is the most important criterion for
determining if an address range should be considered dynamically
assigned."

I think that makes sense, there are plenty of ordinary domestic
Windows boxes running on static addresses - it means practically
nothing. 

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