On Mon, 08 Apr 1996 23:47:45 +0200 
 "Matthias Scheler" <tron@lyssa.owl.de> wrote:

> No, that way has many disadvantages, e.g.:
> 
> 1.) Reverse resolving is not always possible.

Sorry I disagree. ANY host on the internet should have reliable reverse
DNS lookups, and :

         Every host MUST implement a resolver for the Domain Name System
         (DNS), and it MUST implement a mechanism using this DNS
         resolver to convert host names to IP addresses and vice-versa  
         [DNS:1, DNS:2].


> 2.) IP address assignments may change.

What has this to do with anything?

Neil.
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