In message <51274721.1030...@inex.ie>, Nick Hilliard writes:
> On 22/02/2013 05:47, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > For much the same reason that *.COM was bad.
>
> *.com was certainly evil, but I don't think it's necessarily fair to
> compare the two, given the different usage scope of forward and reverse
> domains.
>
> > You *will* break things that you are unaware of.
>
> can you quantify / clarify any things which you think it will break?
I can well imagine a machine doing a reverse lookup on a proposed
address and not proceeding with that address if it doesn't get a
NXDOMAIN.
NODATA -> unsafe
NXDOMAIN -> may be safe
The problem is that we don't know what changing the status quo will
do. We have to be very cautious about doing that.
Mark
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