>... is it not possible to indicate that the only services ever believed >to have acted upon this type of check are email and (in the last >century) FTP ? Or is that an incorrect statement ?
It is my impression that IRC has been a fairly enthusiastic user of rDNS. Matching forward and reverse DNS is a hint that a host is supposed to be visible to the outside world, but I wouldn't read a lot more into it than that. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop