[AusNOG] IPv6 reverse DNS and Mail ...

[Ross Wheeler]

> I know people love to see reverse entries and it makes traceroutes far
> more interesting, but since they aren't essential to the function of
> anything, maintenance of reverses has always, and will always, be
> haphazard at best. Much as the Internet Police would like to believe
> otherwise.

When some of our largest players have vast tracts of their own IP space 
with missing or (arguably worse) completely wrong PTR records, and they 
more or less refuse to fix it, no wonder smaller and emerging players 
don't see the "need" for it and cite the examples being set.

RossW