Hello mark!

On Saturday December 09 2006 14:59, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> Lawrence Fan is off line. No POTS number listed and his static IP
 MvdV>> number does not have a reverse dns associated with it.

 ml> rDNS is _not_ required...

Yes it is. RFC 1912, 2.1:

 > Make sure your PTR and A records match.  For every IP address, there
 > should be a matching PTR record in the in-addr.arpa domain.

 MvdV>> (No Ptr record) That is the equivalent of "This number is no
 MvdV>> longer in use".

 ml> completely incorrect ASSupption...

It is not an assumption, it is a conclusion. "For every IP address, there
should be a matching PTR record in the in-addr.arpa domain." So if
there is no PTR record, the IP does not exist. QED.

 ml>  especially since rDNS is _NOT_ required...

Wrong.. See RFC 1912.

 MvdV>> Terri Roati? No contact information at all. Off-line.

 ml> i see the problem... because _you_ can't contact them directly, you
 ml> erroneously thing they are offline when they are not...

A server that lists no contact information is off-line for all practical purposes.

 ml> carol has told you more than once that they are pulling mail from
 ml> their feed like clockwork...

So do my points. Your point?

 ml>  what more do you want?

I can not believe you are too dense to know the answer. So you must be
trying to provoke me.

Cheers, Michiel

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