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Re: PTR lookups




On Friday, Nov 8, 2002, at 17:03 America/Montreal, Michael Richardson wrote:
  End-point identifiers with public keys in reverse DNS is very nice.
The argument against has been that the ISPs don't give end-users access
to the reverse DNS.
ASIDE:
One can emulate PTR by adding an IPv6 end-to-end option that gives
the recipient a hint about which forward lookup to try to authenticate.[1]

Ran

[1] Not originally my idea. Pointed out to me by someone else during
a meeting at ICIR last year...