PTR records for IPv6

Frank Habicht geier at geier.ne.tz
Tue Sep 3 14:54:48 CEST 2013


On 9/3/2013 3:46 PM, Marco Sommani wrote:
> 
> On 03/set/2013, at 14:38, md at Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 03, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Mostly because it's on by default. Even if you configure a static
>>> address and default gw, as soon as the system sees RAs it might
>>> start to use SLAAC based privacy addresses for outgoing connections.
>> This is clearly a misconfiguration.
> 
> You are free to say that this is a misconfiguration, but on Windows, OSX and iOS it is the default.

ok for general use.
not for a mail server. do these OSs have an MTA running by default?
part of proper MTA installation would be to change that default behaviour.

Frank




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