[RFCI-Discuss] whois.gandi.net rejects hosts without reverse dns

[Alan Brown]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Baptiste REMOUE (LOKRIS SARL) wrote:

>  Don't understand

Gandi's whois server is refusing requests from hosts without rDNS

> 	unknown host rejected 80.193.211.68

$ host 80.193.211.68
Host 68.211.193.80.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)


Depending on interpretations this could be listable behaviour, depending
how the RFCs on availability of WHOIS data are interpreted.

IMO allowing Gandi to continue this would set a dangerous precedent.

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