ARIN does NOT require it, they just state that the owner is responsible for
doing it.  That doesn't mean the owner HAS to, just that if they want to,
they'll have to handle it themselves without ARIN's assistance.

William

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Subject: RE: is reverse dns mandatory?
From: "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@...>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:30:15 -0400
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How about the fact that ARIN requires it?

http://www.arin.net/policy/ipv4.html#inaddrs

David

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> From: Jeff Lasman [mailto:jblists@...> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:29 PM
> To: isp-dns@isp-dns.com
> Subject: [isp-dns] is reverse dns mandatory?
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> I've got a consulting client who's subletting some colo space.  The
> company he's dealing with will neither do reverse dns for=20
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> they give it to him to do.
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> They say it's unnecessary.
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> So far we haven't seen any problems, but we know we may in the future,
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> Looking through various threads on various lists and newsgroups, and
> through the RFCs, it appears as if reverse DNS is NOT mandatory.
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> Anyone have any good arguments you can point me and and my client
> towards so we can get his provider to give him reverse dns?
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> Thanks.
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> Jeff
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