PTR records for IPv6

Jason Fesler jfesler at gigo.com
Mon Sep 2 03:05:19 CEST 2013


On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at google.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with wildcard PTRs?
>
> *.e.f.a.c.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2 IN PTR customer-cafe.isp.net.

And, customer-café.isp.net has AAAA records to what exactly?

It isn't just reverse DNS.  It is reverse + matching forward DNS.
Mismatches in the IPv4 world are greatly penalized both at SMTP time
and by SpamAssassin.

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