[dns-operations] Why would an MTA issue an ANY query instead of an MX query?

Paul Vixie paul at redbarn.org
Sat Jun 23 23:08:09 UTC 2012


On 2012-06-23 9:54 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> ...
> Perhaps it's time to admit defeat, call our legislators, and suggest
> that they mandate source address validation by service providers.

it's been time and past time for that since the internet was first
commercialized and privatized.

not only mandating it in the enterprise, but in the isp, and in peers of
the isp.

economics favour NOT doing this. it will NOT be done, at scale, voluntarily.




More information about the dns-operations mailing list